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N. 160
November 2001
Foreign Direct Investment and the Single Market
J. Peter Neary
University College, Dublin; CEPR
JEL: F15, F23, F12
Keywords: Foreign direct investment; market integration; multinational corporations; single market
Address for correspondence: Department of Economics, University College Dublin, Belfield,
Dublin 4, Ireland; tel.: (+353) 1-716 8344; fax: (+353) 1-283 0068; e-mail: [email protected];
home page: http//www.ucd.ie/ economics/staff/pneary/neary.htm.
I am grateful to Frank Barry, Dermont Leahy, Massimo Motta, George Norman and Tony Venables
and to participants at a seminar at LSE and at a University of Nottingham Conference on Foreign
Direct Investment and Economic Integration, especially Rodney Falvey, for helpful discussions.
This research is part of the Globalisation Programme of the Centre for Economic Performance at
LSE, funded by the UK ESRC.
July 4, 2001