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Foreign direct investment [PDF]

open access: possible, 1997
This paper argues that the liberalisation of foregin direct investment (FDI) has made labour costs more important to domestic investment and long-run labour demand. It provides evidence from British and German data that is consistent with this view. First, high unit labour costs increase FDI outflows and lower FDI inflows.
Dale R. Weigel   +2 more
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Foreign direct investment

2018
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) statistics are commonly treated as unproblematic measures of the ‘true’ levels of cross-border investment flows. Through a dissection of the manifold measurement problems underlying standard FDI statistics, this chapter offers a different perspective on these numbers.
Anca M. Voicu   +2 more
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Foreign Direct Investment vs. Foreign Portfolio Investment

Management International Review, 2012
We examine the effect of a country’s governance environment on the foreign investment it attracts. We classify countries based on the dominant mode of governance into three types: (1) rule-based (strong public rule of law), (2) relation-based (weak rule of law and strong informal networks), and (3) family-based (absence of both public rules and ...
Jun Wu, Shaomin Li, David D. Selover
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Foreign Direct Investment

2021
Abstract Consensus on the concept of foreign direct investment (FDI) has sparked an enormous body of research that confirms the importance of separating FDI and its politics from other forms of international economy activity. At the same time, international political economy research on FDI is in danger of becoming a victim of its own ...
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Foreign Direct Investment

This two-volume original reference work provides a comprehensive overview of development economics and comprises contributions by some of the leading scholars working in the field. Authors are drawn from around the world and write on a wide range of topics.
Yongsun Paik   +3 more
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Foreign Direct Investment

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
Recent efforts by international trade economics have led to the integration of the theory of the multinational enterprise into the theory of international trade. This is both an exciting and an important development. Prior to the last decade or so, analysis of the MNE was largely distinct from trade theory. The former was partial equilibrium in nature,
Magnus Blomström   +2 more
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Strategic foreign direct investment

1997
This chapter examines foreign direct investment by multinational firms in the modern world economy, which is characterised by increasing integration across national markets. This process — often termed ‘globalisation’ — has radically altered firms’ approaches to direct foreign investment.
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Foreign Direct Investment

2017
Recent years have also seen increased openness of EDEs to foreign direct investment (FDI) in search for faster growth and greater stability. However, FDI is one of the most ambiguous and least understood concepts in international economics. Common debate is confounded by several myths regarding its nature and impact.
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