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International share ownership, profit shifting and protectionism
In this paper, I examine the implications of increasing globalisation of stock market ownership on the economics of protection. Current data on European, Japanese and Australian stock exchanges indicate that in most cases over 30 per cent of the stock market is foreign-owned, a large increase on a couple of decades ago. Foreign share ownership in the USA lags behind these levels, but is increasing fast. This degree of foreign share-ownership is likely to change qualitatively the nature of the response of governments to FDI and support for `domestic' firms. In particular, a series worked examples, based upon duopoly theory, suggest that the level of foreign share-ownership is usually sufficient for profit-shifting on its own no longer to justify protection .
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Economics
Publisher
© Loughborough UniversityVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
Publication date
2007Notes
This is a working paper. It is also available at: http://ideas.repec.org/p/lbo/lbowps/2007_28.htmlISSN
1750-4171Book series
Loughborough University. Department of Economics. Discussion Paper Series;WP 2007 - 28Language
- en