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- Get Your International Business Terms Right
- Don't make the mistake of calling a company global when it's really just international -- or even worse, saying a company is multinational when it's really transnational! For convenience, it's common to use the umbrella term international business to describe business activities that extend past the borders of a company's...
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- FDI Flows: The Role Of Transparency And Specialization
- This paper develops a simple information-based model of FDI Foreign Direct Investment flows. The relative abundance of "Intangible" capital in specialized industries in the source countries which presumably generates expertise in screening investment projects in the host countries enhances FDI flows. But, host-country relative corporate transparency diminishes the value of...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- FDI And Trade In The UK: Substitutes Or Complements?
- The mainstay theory of the multinational firm worked out a range of different arguments that speak for both, complementary as well as substitutional links among Foreign Direct Investment FDI and trade. In accordance to that, some empirical investigations detect a replacement of trade flows by FDI, while others reveal not...
- White papers 2005-08-01
- The FDI - Employment Link In A Globalizing World: The Case Of Argentina, Brazil And Mexico
- For many developing countries, attracting FDI has been a key aspect of their outward-oriented development strategy, as investment is considered a crucial element for output growth and employment generation. New trends have reinforced the importance of private investment. Private investment, both domestic and foreign, is viewed as the driving force...
- White papers 2006-10-11
- The Role Of FDI In The EU Accession Process: The Case Of The Western Balkans
- The countries of the Western Balkans are less developed and more backward in terms of transition than Central and Eastern European countries CEE. Per capita GDP Gross Domestic Product of the CEE economies is two to three times higher than in the Western Balkans with exception of Croatia. The authors...
- White papers 2003-09-11
- The Migration And FDI Puzzle: Complements Or Substitutes?
- This paper analyses the link between FDI Foreign Direct Investment inflows and migration waves from developing countries. In addition, it investigates mechanisms through which this link works. Empirical results indicate that FDI can be seen as substitutes of migration through direct and indirect labour demand. However, the paper demonstrates that...
- White papers 2006-10-25
- On The Differential Impact Of FDI On Host Economies
- This paper sheds light on a central yet under-investigated issue in the European Integration debate, namely, the role of FDI on the growth process of EU countries. Most of the relevant literature to date treats host economies as homogeneous and consequently doesn't allow for a differential impact of FDI on...
- White papers 2004-09-02
- Foreign Direct Investment In India: A Critical Analysis Of FDI From 1991-2005
- The Concept of Foreign Direct Investment FDI is now a part of India's economic future but the term remains vague to many, despite the profound effects on the economy. Despite the extensive studies on FDI, there has been little illumination forthcoming and it remains a contentious topic. The paper explores...
- White papers 2005-10-07
- Institutions, Internationalization And FDI: The Case Of Economies In Transition
- The attempts in the paper to explain the uneven allocation of foreign direct investment in the economies in transition for the most part stress the role of the market as the most significant factor in the attraction of such investment. This paper attempts to verify empirically the argument that institutional...
- White papers 2004-08-01
- Estimating Regional Trade Agreement Effects On FDI In An Interdependent World
- Nowadays research on trade and multinationals highlights the complex integration strategies and the varying degree of vertical integration of multinational firms in a multilateral world. A high percentage of world trade is actually conducted by multinational firms, and most of the Foreign Direct Investment FDI occurs within the block of...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Does Strict Employment Protection Legislation Deter FDI?
- While popular sentiment suggests that strict employment protection legislation will tend to weaken the attractiveness of a country as a location for FDI Foreign Direct Investment, theoretical predictions on this issue are mixed. This study reports empirical evidence on this issue, using panel data for a sample of OECD (Organisation...
- White papers 2003-04-01
- Do Institutions Matter For FDI?: A Comparative Analysis For The MENA Countries
- The paper analyses the underpinning factors of foreign direct investments towards the MENA countries. Our main interpretative hypothesis is based on the significant role of the quality of institutions to attract FDI Foreign Direct Investment. In MENA experience the growth of FDI flows proved to be notably inferior to that...
- White papers 2007-03-28
- Population Aging, Foreign Direct Investment, And Tax Competition
- This paper studies the role of population aging for Foreign Direct Investment FDI and the strategic taxation of capital. Importantly, this theoretical model suggests that the labor market implications of aging differ from the financial market aspects. While population aging may be associated with a lower capital stock in the...
- White papers 2006-05-25
- A Review Of The Empirical Literature On FDI Determinants
- This paper surveys the burgeoning literature that empirically examines the Foreign Direct Investment FDI decisions of MultiNational Enterprises MNEs and the resulting aggregate location of FDI across the world. The contribution of the paper is to evaluate what one can say with relative confidence about FDI as a profession, given...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Proactive Financial Strategies And The OLI Paradigm Of FDI
- This paper argues that the OLI paradigm underplays the financial aspects of international production. The authors claim that proactive financial strategies generate OLI advantages that can be exploited through such production. Based on a sample of 1379 non-financial European firms evidence is found that proactive financial strategies involving the undertaking...
- White papers 2004-05-21
- Multinational Firms, FDI Flows And Imperfect Capital Markets
- This paper examines how costly financial contracting and weak investor protection influence the cross-border operational, financing and investment decisions of firms. A model is developed in which product developers have a comparative advantage in monitoring the deployment of their technology abroad. The paper demonstrates that when firms want to exploit...
- White papers 2007-01-01
- The Impact Of Foreign Direct Investment On State-Owned Enterprises Reform
- The increasing speed of globalisation has created both opportunities and challenges to many transitional economies. This paper analyses the impact of Foreign Direct Investment FDI on the productivity of the State-Owned Enterprises SOEs and concludes that SOE reform is inevitable. The SOEs' obligations to provide social welfare should be removed...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- FDI Statistics: A Critical Review And Policy Implications
- Foreign Direct Investment FDI is a driving force of globalization and an important engine of economic growth. Developing as well as developed countries seek to attract FDI due to its many advantages for economic development. FDI can not only bring capital to an economy, but also transfer knowledge, technology and...
- White papers 2006-10-01
- Product Characteristics And The Growth Of FDI
- FDI Foreign Direct Investment and the activities of foreign affiliate firms have grown dramatically in decades, both in absolute terms and as a share of world GDP Gross Domestic Product. Most explanations of this phenomenon focus on the impact of the macroeconomic environment on the choices facing individual firms over...
- White papers 2003-02-01
- Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Growth?: Recent Evidence From Latin America
- Research has stressed the role of technology as one of the crucial drive engines of growth. Not every country, however, has the same possibilities to access advanced technology. Many LDCs Less Developed Countries lack the necessary social infrastructure in order to innovate and must often recur to technology invented elsewhere....
- White papers 2003-05-27
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