Download or read book Essays on Foreign Direct Investment Growth and the Environment written by Waner Gu and published by Proquest, UMI Dissertation Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 3 develops a statistical procedure to select the appropriate nonparametric efficiency model in terms of its dimensionality. The change of dimensionality is categorized into three cases: nested variable changes (expansion or contraction of a variable set), additive variable changes (aggregation or disaggregation of a variable set) and other non-nested model changes. A bootstrapping method is proposed to measure the size of the dimensionality effect. Potential bias in raw efficiency scores owing to the dimensionality effect is corrected to reflect true efficient levels. An empirical illustration is presented with the Hughes and Yaisawarng (2004) (hereafter HY) data set.
Download or read book Essays on Foreign Direct Investment and Environmental Pollution Loadings written by Woong Eun and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book North South Globalization and Foreign Direct Investment written by Jakob Schwab and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jakob Schwab analyzes central mechanisms in the systematic economic interaction between rich and poor countries. He focuses on the drivers and effects of investment in developing countries and shows that predictions of standard economic analysis may turn around when accounting for peculiarities of North-South globalization. The author shows how endowments with educational skill levels may lead to complementarity between trade and capital inflows, how inflows of direct investment capital may hinder income growth in poor countries, and how the distributional effects of the presence of multinational enterprises are perceived differently in countries of different development structures.
Download or read book International Trade Foreign Direct Investment and the Economic Environment written by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-02-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, well-known experts analyze some of the most important problems of the rapid growth of international trade, foreign direct investment, and the problems related to the economic environment within which such trade and investment take place.
Download or read book Essays on Foreign Direct Investment and Growth in the United States written by Timothy C. Ford and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rethinking Foreign Investment for Sustainable Development written by Kevin P. Gallagher and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consisting of country case studies and comparative analyses from Latin American and US based political economists, this volume examines the recent history of foreign investment for development in Latin America in the context of the current backlash against ‘Washington Consensus’ policies. These essays form the broad conclusion that foreign direct investment fell far short of generating the necessary linkages for sustainable economic development.
Download or read book Essays on Growth Foreign Direct Investment and Industrial Pollution written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Development in East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union written by David Turnock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the achievement of further EU and NATO enlargement, a critical political and economic lens is now focused on East Central Europe and, to a lesser extent, the other former communist states. Economic growth in each transition state - and more broadly the region - pivots around the prospects for foreign direct investment (FDI), with decisions on where foreign investors will locate their projects now vitally important. This book - the first one devoted to a geographical survey concentrating specifically on FDI in the region - brings together a wide range of prominent authors from the US and Europe, including the late Frank Carter, to provide a timely and critical examination of the importance of foreign investment. It presents a detailed analysis of location patterns and their significance for regional development, with particular emphasis given to the important socioeconomic and political consequences of uneven distribution of FDI across the region and its constituent countries. Divided into two parts, the book first deals with general overarching themes and issues before applying these to more specific country case studies. The second part deals with regional studies, focusing broadly on the Western Balkans and Bulgaria, before looking at specific economic sectors in individual countries.
Download or read book Essays on Foreign Direct Investment and Growth written by Mousumi Duttaray and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Developing Countries written by Nitesh Saha and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on the Empirical Analysis of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Growth written by Edna Maeyen Solomon and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Developing Countries and Foreign Direct Investment written by Youngchae Lee and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My dissertation is motivated by the question, "In an era of ever-increasing global economic integration, why do some developing countries continually struggle to attract foreign direct investment (FDI)?" I explain this phenomenon by highlighting the interaction between international law and domestic institutions, and illustrating how this dynamic affects FDI in developing countries. My methods involve large-N quantitative analyses of developing countries, supported by case studies. The first chapter, "The Effects of Federalism and decentralization on the Business Environment for Foreign Direct Investment," shows that while developing countries often sign bilateral investment treaties (BITs) to commit to a stable policy environment, the effectiveness of these treaties in improving policy stability is reduced by federalism and decentralization. According to international law, national governments are legally responsible for any BIT violations that occur within their territories, even when the violation was committed by a subnational-level government. One implication of this is that when foreign investors initiate international arbitration claims over alleged BIT violations, the respondents are always national governments. This gives subnational governments weaker incentives than national governments to comply with BITs, which decreases the effectiveness of BITs in promoting policy stability in countries where subnational governments are relatively powerful. The second chapter, "Can Rational Choice Explain Bilateral Investment Treaties? How Lack of Legal Capacity Affects BIT Signing," argues that a country's legal capacity affects its ability to fully evaluate the consequences of BITs. I show that countries with federal and decentralized governments are more likely to be embroiled in international investment disputes over alleged violations of BITs, but that only countries with higher legal capacity are likely to adjust for this increased risk by signing fewer BITs. This demonstrates that a country's ability to behave in a "rational" manner when signing international treaties is dependent on its level of legal expertise. The third chapter, "The Effects of Judicial Independence on Foreign Direct Investment and International Arbitration Laws," studies how developing countries with institutional disadvantages use international alternatives to promote FDI, and how this differs by regime type. I show that in democratic countries, a decrease in judicial independence is associated with lower FDI inflows. Countries facing this problem respond by being more likely to adopt laws that provide investors with the option of international arbitration. These patterns are, however, not observed in autocratic countries. This is because in autocratic countries, the government can provide foreign investors with opportunities to collude with the government and extract rents at the expense of the public, making them less dependent on judicial independence to attract FDI"--Pages vii-ix.
Download or read book Trade and Investment in a Globalising World written by H. Peter Gray and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a career in economics spanning 40 years, Peter Gray has made significant contributions and syntheses in a variety of subfields in international economics. This work presents essays by eminent scholars in the fields of International Trade and Investment written in honour of H Peter Gray. Contributors include John Dunning, and Gabriel Benito.
Download or read book Essays on Foreign Direct Investment Agglomeration and Productivity written by Fariha Kamal and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on the Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment and Its Impact on Home Countries written by Jitao Tang and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both policy makers and policy analysts are interested in the extent to which host country policies influences foreign direct investment (FDI). While much work has focused on the impact of government policies on aggregate FDI, little attention has been paid to the possibility that different types of FDI may respond differently to changes in policies. In this dissertation, I investigate whether local policies affect distinct types of FDI in different ways. In addition, I also study whether the FDI undertaken by multinational enterprises (MNEs) generates spillovers to their home countries. In the first chapter, I test the effect of environmental policies in host countries on horizontal, vertical and export-platform FDI. In a simple model I show how different types of FDI respond to a stricter environmental policy. Using U.S. outward FDI in 50 host countries and a survey measure of local environmental regulations, I find a significant deterrent effect of environmental regulations on horizontal and export-platform FDI. Furthermore, I find that in host countries with stricter environmental regulations than U.S. regulations, export-platform FDI exhibits a greater sensitivity to local environmental regulations than horizontal FDI. I extend the analysis in the first chapter to the effect of local corporate tax rates in the second chapter. The empirical evidence suggests that the effect of statutory corporate income tax rates is negative and significant on vertical and export-platform FDI but insignificant on horizontal FDI. The tax effect is found to have grown stronger over time. More importantly, I find that different types of FDI respond in distinct ways to variation in tax rates across "third" countries.
Download or read book Why has China attracted such huge amounts of foreign direct investment FDI over the last 30 years written by Luke Gipson and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Economics - International Economic Relations, University of Kent (Kent Business School), language: English, abstract: Foreign direct investment (FDI) occurs when a firm establishes, acquires, or increases production facilities in a foreign country, fundamentally it’s a movement of capital. Critically FDI is a key business indicator as it demonstrates that Multi-National Companies (MNC’s) have set out strategies to exercise their control in foreign countries and overseas markets. Over the last thirty years China’s FDI inflows have grown at a staggering rate. In order to understand the reasons why this pattern has occurred both the micro and macro environment need to be considered. Therefore, it is evident that a number of factors need to explored, this is what the first part of essay discuses. The second part of the question is inevitably based upon opinion and prediction. In order to judge if the trend of FDI is to continue, it has to be constructed upon the past trends but also the external environment. For example, The Economist has built a case for why India’s annual GDP growth will outpace China. Fundamentally, this kind of speculation amongst the business world is likely to raise questions on the location of where MNC’s will do business and where FDI will follow. This will be further explored in the second part of the essay.
Download or read book Three Essays on Foreign Direct Investment written by Kasaundra Michele Tomlin and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
