سرمایه گذاری مستقیم خارجی، تجارت درون شرکتی و ساختار مالکیت

Asymmetric information about true opportunity cost in trade between a multinational and its foreign affiliate can alleviate the hold-up problem in foreign direct investment. Selling shares in the affiliate to locals is also beneficial because it increases the parent multinational's information rent that is protected from a host government's confiscatory taxation.