How Do Technical Barriers to Trade Affect Foreign Direct Investment?

03/21/2019

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Mahdi Ghodsi | The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies

Trade liberalisation and the EU enlargement in the past two decades allowed European multinational enterprises (MNEs) to benefit from production fragmentation in Central, East and Southeast Europe (CESEE). Recent studies show that market regulations and standards that are embedded within Technical Barriers to Trade (TBTs) might not necessarily hamper trade but improve the quality of products, production procedures, and market efficiencies.

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