Ireland and the changing global foreign direct investment landscape

Barry, Frank

doi:10.2478/admin-2019-0022

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“…17 These historical episodes demonstrate the feasibility of attracting UK food processing firms to Ireland to service foreign markets. For smaller UK producers, we know from an earlier era that the familiarity of the Irish environment (in terms of language and legal system for example) can represent a significant advantage (Barry, 2019). More generally, while land bridge issues and the seasonality of milk production will militate against an Irish base, a 2009 change in the UK tax system -which abolished dividend taxes on foreign repatriation from many low-tax countries, including Ireland -will work in the opposite direction (Liu, 2018).…”

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Brexit Damage Limitation: Tariff-Jumping FDI and the Irish Agri-Food Sector

Barry

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Hogan³

2020

The Irish Journal of Management

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A ‘hard Brexit’ would be particularly damaging to the Irish beef and dairy sectors. The UK also exports substantial amounts of these products to the EU however and the vacuum that restrictions on UK access to the EU market would create affords opportunities for Irish-based producers. The aim of the paper is to assess how these opportunities might be best exploited. The results of a revealed comparative advantage (RCA) analysis conducted using international trade data do not prove encouraging. RCA analysis however implicitly treats the stock of foreign direct investment (FDI) as given. Newspaper reports are drawn upon to detail the extent of precautionary ‘tariff jumping’ FDI already undertaken by Irish agri-businesses. These flows thus far have been almost entirely one-way. Flows in international financial services have been in the opposite direction. These asymmetries suggest that targeted efforts by Ireland's industrial development agencies may be able to offset some of the damaging consequences of a hard Brexit.

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confidence: 99%

Brexit Damage Limitation: Tariff-Jumping FDI and the Irish Agri-Food Sector

Barry

Sun²,

Hogan³

2020

The Irish Journal of Management

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Embodied and Disembodied Spillovers from FDI: Sectoral Evidence from Ireland

Bournakis

Mei

2023

J Ind Compet Trade

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Constructing the ‘Public Interest’: (De)legitimizing the Acquisition of Aer Lingus by IAG

Fitzgerald

2023

Global Business Review

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This article assesses how the ‘Public Interest’ was used to (de)legitimize the acquisition of a national airline. It does this by adopting a case study approach that analyses the acquisition of Aer Lingus by International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG). This acquisition is part of a broader trend of international consolidation that the aviation industry has experienced in recent years. The article also critiques whether the ‘Public Interest’ was constructed on valid grounds. Its analysis found that the public interest was constructed as the continuance of routes between Irish airports and London Heathrow as a means for Ireland to maintain international connectivity. However, this article questions the validity of how the ‘Public Interest’ was constructed, suggesting that although the Public Interest does appear to be served by maintaining international connectivity, it is less clear whether connectivity with London Heathrow serves the interests of the public. Notwithstanding this critique, IAG was able to successfully use the maintenance of the Public Interest to successfully execute its acquisition of Aer Lingus.

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Ireland and the changing global foreign direct investment landscape

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Brexit Damage Limitation: Tariff-Jumping FDI and the Irish Agri-Food Sector

Brexit Damage Limitation: Tariff-Jumping FDI and the Irish Agri-Food Sector

Embodied and Disembodied Spillovers from FDI: Sectoral Evidence from Ireland

Constructing the ‘Public Interest’: (De)legitimizing the Acquisition of Aer Lingus by IAG

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