FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT AND THE SINGLE MARKET*
J. Peter Neary
University College Dublin and CEPR
July 4, 2001
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/~economic/staff/pneary/neary.htm.
* I am grateful to Frank Barry, Dermot 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.