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Contracting with Enemies?: Vertical FDI with Outsourcing Contracts

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  • JaeBin Ahn
  • Jee-Hyeong Park

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An exploration of Korean MNCs¡¯ foreign affiliate-level data reveals that a signi`ficant portion of manufacturing foreign affiliates sell both to related and unrelated firms at the same time. We refer to this as hybrid vertical FDI. We rationalize the presence of hybrid vertical FDI by modifying the otherwise standard property?rights model of global sourcing with the subsidiarylevel option of supplying inputs to unrelated customers in addition to related firms. Given the positive production externality from serving additional customers?that is proportional to the MNC¡¯s productivity?and the costs of getting such benefit?that are increasing in relationship-specificity of the outsourced inputs, the model predicts a couple of testable hypotheses that are robustly confirmed by our subsequent empirical analysis.

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  • JaeBin Ahn & Jee-Hyeong Park, 2021. "Contracting with Enemies?: Vertical FDI with Outsourcing Contracts," Working Paper Series no140-1, Institute of Economic Research, Seoul National University.
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    1. Ahn,Jaebin & Choi,Jaerim & Chung,Sunghoon, 2022. "Labor Market Rigidity at Home and Multinational Corporations’ Flexible Task Reallocation Abroad," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10114, The World Bank.

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