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- Foreign Direct Investment And The Degree Of Southern Penetration
- The author develops a dynamic general equilibrium model of North-South trade to investigate to what extent the South is able to enter international markets through Foreign Direct Investment FDI that serves as a channel for technology transfer. In low- and medium-tech industries, the South catches up and competes with the...
- White papers 2005-02-18
- Foreign Direct Investment In India: A Lost Opportunity
- Foreign Direct Investment FDI is an important component of every nation's efforts toward economic development and also is an integral part of the globalization of the world economy. All nations eagerly try to attract FDI. The success of any nation in attracting foreign investment is directly proportional to that nation's...
- White papers 2003-10-05
- Export, FDI And Cross-Border Strategic Alliances
- This paper develops a model that incorporates firms' decisions on cross-border strategic alliances and international market entry modes (i.e., export or FDI). Market size, product differentiation, distribution costs and alliance synergies are important factors that affect the firms' incentives to form strategic alliances and their choice between exports and FDI....
- White papers 2006-06-10
- Foreign Direct Investment And Restructuring In The Automative Industry In Central And East Europe
- This paper reviews and explores the major effects of FDI Foreign Direct Investment on industry restructuring of the CEE Central and East Europe automotive industry. In particular, we are interested if automotive companies have exploited the value creation potential of CEE? Which factors explain the scale and depth of automotive...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- The Influence Of Domestic Firms On Foreign Direct Investment Liberalization
- This paper investigates the influence of incumbent firms on the decision to allow foreign direct investment into an industry. Based on data from India's economic reforms, the results suggest that firms in concentrated industries are more successful at preventing foreign entry that state-owned firms are more successful at stopping foreign...
- White papers 2006-03-01
- Does Foreign Direct Investment Help Emerging Economies?
- The gap between the world's rich and poor countries largely comes down to the financial and physical assets that create wealth. Developed economies possess more of this capital than developing ones, and what they have usually incorporates more advanced technologies. The implication is clear: A key aspect of economic advancement...
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Foreign Direct Investment As A Factor Of Acceleration Of The Transition Process And Its Role In The Process Of Privatization
- The spreading gap between rich and poor undeveloped countries indicates that there is a strong need for contrivance of such inductive approach for developing countries and countries in transition in contemporary world economy that will maximize the positive influence of globalization. The complexity of this problem is proven by the...
- White papers 2006-08-25
- Foreign Direct Investment And Labor-Market Outcomes
- The multinationalization of production is perhaps the most striking and distinguishing characteristic of the process of globalization over the last two decades. The share of cross-border capital flows accounted for by the Foreign Direct Investment FDI of multinationals has been rising in last few years. This paper examines the relationship...
- White papers 2003-02-01
- Do Institutions Affect Foreign Direct Investment?
- This paper argues that countries whose governments are highly ranked according to various indices of the quality of institutions tend to do better in attracting foreign direct investment. In an empirical analysis of cross-section data, the paper finds that different aspects of the quality of institutions from a country (corruption,...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Expatriate Capabilities, Knowledge Transfer, And Foreign Direct Investment Performance
- This paper emphasizes the micro factors affecting knowledge transfer from MNCs MultiNational corporations to subsidiaries, in contrast to prior international strategy research that has tended to pay more attention to organizational level knowledge transfer mechanisms. In particular, the authors focus on expatriates serving as conduits for knowledge transfer and facilitating...
- White papers 2005-07-01
- Does Foreign Direct Investment Crowd Out Domestic Entrepreneurship?
- In analyzing firm entry and exit across Belgian manufacturing industries, this paper presents evidence that import competition and foreign direct investment discourage entry and stimulate exit of domestic entrepreneurs. These results are in line with theoretical occupational choice models that predict foreign direct investment would crowd out domestic entrepreneurs through...
- White papers 2002-05-22
- Knowledge Spillovers From FDI: Towards A General Framework
- This paper develops a conceptual framework that allows for a consistent and coherent treatment of knowledge spillovers from FDI Foreign Direct Investment. In this framework, three aspects play a crucial role. First, FDI is a general notion that actually comprises a host of different investment types. Second, the number and...
- White papers 2005-06-27
- The Causal Relationship Between ICT And FDI
- This paper investigates the simultaneous causal relationship between investments in Information and Communication Technology ICT and flows of Foreign Direct Investment FDI, with reference to its implications on economic growth. For the empirical analysis data from 23 major countries with heterogeneous economic development for the period 1976 - 99 were...
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Trade Openness, Foreign Direct Investment And Child Labor
- The skeptics of globalization argue that increased trade openness and foreign direct investment induce developing countries to keep labor costs low, for example, by letting children work. This paper argues that there are good theoretical reasons why globalization might actually have the opposite effect. This is tested with various measures...
- White papers 2004-12-21
- Domestic Labour Markets And Foreign Direct Investment
- This paper studies how the labour market and industry uncertainty affect the investment decisions of MultiNational Enterprises MNEs. In an uncertain business climate, MNEs must take account of the future in deciding where to locate a branch plant. When wages are endogenously determined, both the opportunity cost of labour and...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- International Economic Integration: Patterns Of Catching-Up, Foreign Direct Investment And Migration Flows
- This paper develops a Schumpeterian model of international specialization and catching-up. In a previous version of the model the author looked at the impact on international trade specialization when different patterns of technological catching-up are followed. One of these is a Gerschenkron pattern at the industrial level, where the largest...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- FDI And Globalization In India
- FDI inflows were stimulated in industry and services, so benefiting from the many comparative advantages of the country (human resources, emerging market). They mainly came from the United States and Mauritius and concerned industrial sectors. In parallel, some Indian firms started to grow in importance and to invest abroad: they...
- White papers 2006-09-28
- Gifted Kids Or Pushy Parents?: Foreign Acquisitions And Plant Productivity In Indonesia
- There exists a vast empirical literature searching for the evidence of knowledge spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment FDI. Implicit to this analysis lays the assumption that foreign ownership per se conveys some intangible advantage whose proximity can be beneficial to domestic firms. Yet there is no robust empirical confirmation that...
- White papers 2004-10-05
- A Survey On Impediments To Trade And Foreign Direct Investment
- The globalization of economic activities has been accelerating rapidly as cross-border movements of goods, money, information, and people have expanded remarkably in last few years. Although globalization has allegedly brought some negative consequences such as widening income gaps among as well as within countries, on the whole it has had...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Impact Of Intellectual Property Rights Reforms On The Diffusion Of Knowledge Through FDI
- This paper examines the impact of Intellectual Property Rights IPR reforms on the technology flows between the U.S. and countries where U.S. multinationals have established affiliates. Patent citations are used as a proxy for knowledge spillovers to examine whether the diffusion of new technology between the host countries and the...
- White papers 2005-12-01
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