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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 investment commitment in Indian telecom touches a new high
- The FDI investments in the Indian telecom and IT sectors together have reached $17.67 billion over the past 20 months. This will cover both manufacturing and R&D activities. This rise is largely due to companies like Cisco, Ericsson, Nokia, MicrosThe FDI investments in the Indian telecom and IT sectors together...
- Research articles 2006-10-01
- FDI investment commitment in Indian telecom touches a new high
- The FDI investments in the Indian telecom and IT sectors together have reached $17.67 billion over the past 20 months. This will cover both manufacturing and R&D activities. This rise is largely due to companies like Cisco, Ericsson, Nokia, MicrosThe FDI investments in the Indian telecom and IT sectors together...
- Research articles 2006-10-29
- Is Foreign Aid A Vanguard of FDI?: A Gravity-Equation Approach
- This paper investigates whether and how foreign aid facilitates Foreign Direct Investment FDI flows into less developed countries. This paper employs a large data set of source-recipient country pairs and conduct gravity equation-type estimation. This empirical methodology enables us to distinguish among three effects of aid on FDI: a positive...
- White papers 2007-02-01
- Whither Globalisation?: The Beleaguered Promise Of Foreign Investment For Sustainable Development
- Foreign Direct Investment FDI is a leading driver of globalization. Undertaken by TransNational Corporations TNCs, FDI is creating dense and complex global networks of production and consumption. This paper examines statistical and case studies of the relationship between FDI and economic growth in developing countries. It focuses on knowledge spillovers,...
- White papers 2005-11-01
- Testing For Marginal Spillovers From Foreign Direct Investment
- This paper develops a simple test to assess whether horizontal spillover effects from multinational to domestic firms are endogenous to the market structure generated by the entry of the same multinationals. In particular, the performance of a panel of 10,650 domestic and multinational firms operating in Romania in the period...
- White papers 2005-11-10
- Firm-Specific Characteristics And The Timing Of Foreign Direct Investment Projects
- This paper uses a proportional hazard model to study foreign direct investment by Japanese manufacturers in Europe between 1970 and 1994. Each firm's investment total is divided into a sequence of individual investment decisions, and analyze how firm-specific characteristics affect each decision. The authors found that total factor productivity is...
- White papers 2006-02-01
- Trade, Foreign Direct Investment Or Acquisition: Optimal Entry Modes For Multinationals
- This paper examines multinationals' optimal entry modes into foreign markets as a function of market size, FDI Foreign Direct Investment fixed costs, tariffs and transport costs. The results highlight why large countries are more likely to attract acquisition investment, while intermediate sized countries may be served predominantly through trade, even...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- The Impact Of Core Labour Standards On Foreign Direct Investment In East Asia
- This paper contributes to the evolving body of literature examining the effects of CLS Core Labour Standards on FDI Foreign Direct Investment. The author investigates whether the relatively weak CLS in East Asia played any role in attracting FDI through regression analysis. The author uses the same model specification and...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- The Quality Of Institutions And Foreign Direct Investment
- This paper studies the role of the quality of institutions as a determinant of the location of FDI Foreign Direct Investment, using bilateral FDI stocks from OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries around the world. While the literature has placed special emphasis on the role of corruption on...
- White papers 2004-02-01
- Good Medicine Or Snake Oil?: Foreign Direct Investment's Effects On Less Developed Countries
- The relationship between Foreign Direct Investment FDI and Less Developed Countries LDCs is controversial. Dependency thinkers and their heirs argue that FDI is a conduit for neoimperialist exploitation of LDCs by the wealthy. Modernization theorists and their descendents see FDI as a source of values, practices and economic goods that...
- White papers 2003-02-24
- Foreign Direct Investment And Development Of Least Developed Countries
- We analyse Foreign Direct Investment FDI in Cambodia over the period 1994-2004, using unique and unpublished data, made available by the Cambodian Investment Board. The paper identifies the most important recipient sectors in Cambodia and analyses the distribution over the provinces, which is shown to be very uneven. A log-linear...
- White papers 2006-05-01
- The Effects Of Outward Foreign Direct Investment On Domestic Investment
- This paper examines the relationship between outward foreign direct investments and domestic investments. It has been argued in the literature that such analysis should make a distinction between R&D intensive Schumpeterian and traditional type of industries. In line with this argument, two types of domestic investments have been distinguished: investments...
- White papers 2006-02-28
- Foreign Direct Investment And The Nature Of The Imitation Process
- This paper studies the optimal imitation strategy of a developing country having access to both imitation through trade and imitation through Foreign Direct Investments FDIs. We base ourselves on an extension of the Romer "Variety model" (1990) of technology-driven growth, and find that the two types of imitation are substitutes...
- White papers 2006-05-05
- Geographic Factors As Determinants Of Foreign Direct Investment In Eastern Europe's Transitioning Economies
- The removal of the "Iron Curtain" epitomized the shed of Eastern Europe's central planning and the region's adoption of the Western market system. To establish a comparative advantage in nowadays markets, the transitioning nations need financial assistance through Foreign Direct Investment FDI. While most research focuses on economic and political...
- White papers 2005-05-02
- Foreign Direct Investment, Inequality, And Growth
- This paper examines the interactions between Foreign Direct Investment FDI, inequality, and growth, both from an empirical and a theoretical point of view. Using a panel of 119 developing countries, it is observed that FDI promotes both inequality and growth, and tends to reduce the share of agriculture to GDP...
- White papers 2005-12-01
- Political Institutions And Foreign Direct Investment In Developing Countries
- In the 1990s, Foreign Direct Investment FDI became the largest single source of external finance in the developing world. Not only is FDI increasingly important in quantitative terms, it also has a number of qualitative characteristics important to developing countries. It is less volatile than portfolio flows, does not require...
- White papers 2006-09-28
- The Role Of Foreign Direct Investment And Natural Resources In Economic Development
- This paper analyzes the role of FDI Foreign Direct Investment on economic growth, and discusses whether, based on these results, there is some rationale for special policies that discriminate in favor of particular sectors to attract FDI and to promote growth. At a sectoral level, this paper also discusses the...
- White papers 2003-01-09
- Foreign Direct Investment And Privatization
- This paper examines whether privatization is a determinant of Foreign Direct Investment FDI in a sample of countries drawn from two regions: Asia and Latin America, where privatization and FDI penetration have been intense. Using annual data for 1990-99 for eight Asian and nine Latin American and Caribbean countries, a...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- FDI And Economic Growth: The Role Of Local Financial Markets
- This paper examines the various links among Foreign Direct Investment FDI, financial markets, and economic growth. It explores whether countries with better financial systems can exploit FDI more efficiently. Empirical analysis, using cross-country data between 1975-1995, shows that FDI alone plays an ambiguous role in contributing to economic growth. However,...
- White papers 2003-02-01
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