Curses or Blessings: How Low Asset Mobility Helps Foreign Firms Gain Government Support

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Brief Overview

This article advances an alternative view that emphasizes the positive effects of low asset mobility. I argue that governments prefer foreign firms with immobile assets because their commitment to stay is always more credible.

Author

• Haosen Ge, Princeton University