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FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN LATVIA

INDIVIDUAL. SOCIETY. STATE. Proceedings of the International Student and Teacher Scientific and Practical Conference, 2019
The paper deals with foreign direct investment in Latvia. The investigated problem is investments made in the form of an investor in order to acquire a qualifying holding (ownership that represents at least 10% of ordinary shares or voting rights) in a company (direct investment enterprise). These include investments in equity and debt instruments.
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Foreign direct investment [PDF]

, 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.
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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

2007
Points A-E in the following diagram have appeared various times in this book. Here we use the diagram to depict two views on development. The upper arrow represents raising the per-person possibility frontier through capital accumulation and technical change.
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Foreign Direct Investment

2005
This chapter provides an account of systematic research undertaken into FDI in China, which highlights an overview of its source determinants and foreign development trends. It offers a summary of FDI theory in terms of the absolute advantage explanation, the theory of comparative advantages, international production, the Heckscher–Ohlin model, the ...
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Foreign Direct Investment and Wages

2004
This book provides rigorous analysis of the wide range of questions surrounding the role of international institutions in governing global business, especially multinational enterprises (MNEs). The analysis, both theoretical and empirical, focuses on the corporate governance of MNEs and to what extent their management takes into account the negative ...
Sapsford, D R, Balasubramanyam, V N
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Foreign Direct Investment

1993
Introduction Kenneth A. Froot 1 The Surge in Foreign Direct Investment in the Late 1980s Conceptual Issues Paul Krugman and Edward Graham Comment: Kenneth A. Froot 2 New Perspectives on Foreign Direct Investment Rachel McCulloch Comment: Karl P. Sauvant 3 Where Are the Multinationals Headed? Raymond Vernon Comment: Richard E.
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Law and Foreign Direct Investment [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
In this paper we examine the effect of law on foreign direct investment outflows with a specific interest in the relationship between international investment law and domestic private property laws. Our results indicate that FDI investor is indifferent to host country property rights, hence shareholder protection by law is not a significant determinant
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Foreign Direct Investment in Manufacturing

Journal of Political Economy, 1977
The purpose of this paper is to present a simple model, based on profit-maximizing behavior, that can be used to derive estimable equations for U.S. foreign direct investment in manufacturing. Our estimation of foreign-investment equations requires estimates of production functions for U.S. manufacturing subsidiaries abroad.
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Foreign Direct Investment in Ukraine

2023
The Ukrainian economy cannot ensure economic reconstruction after the war and needs new opportunities for its development. Foreign direct investment (FDI) is an important instrument that can help. FDI provides capital relevant for increasing the profitability of economic sectors.
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