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Lawyer\u27s Day Edition, The Semi-Weekly Campus
Issue of the Semi-Weekly Campus describing early history of the law school.https://scholar.smu.edu/publications/1011/thumbnail.jp
Technical Compatibility and the Mode of Foreign Entry under Network Externalities
This paper examines the preferences of a foreign firm and a
welfare-maximizing host country government over two modes of foreign
direct investment (FDI): de novo entry by the foreign firm and
acquisition of the domestic incumbent. Two crucial features of the model
are the presence of network externalities and (endogenously determined)
partial incompatibility between the technology of the domestic incumbent
and that introduced by the foreign firm. The relative impact of the
modes of entry on local welfare is determined by the degree of
competition (more intense under de novo entry) and the magnitude of the
positive network externality (greater under acquisition). The clash
between the foreign firm's equilibrium choice and the local government's
ranking of the two modes of entry might be a potential motivation for
policy restrictions that limit the degree of foreign ownership
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