Economic Integration And Multinational Investment Behavior

Author : Pierre-Bruno Ruffini
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000095313155

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Economic Integration and Multinational Investment Behavior by Pierre-Bruno Ruffini Pdf

This book presents important and original studies of international trade and investment in relation to regional economic integration, with particular reference to the experiences of Europe and East Asia. The distinguished contributors illustrate and explain how the location decisions of firms, international trade and capital flows can form, stimulate and shape economic regions in the global economy. The authors address several important themes including: the factors which determine the location choices of multinational firms location decisions of multinational firms in relation to their global performance the growing importance of East Asia as a recipient zone for foreign direct investment the impact of foreign direct investment on Asian host countries the role of trade and investment in regional economic integration. Economic Integration and Multinational Investment Behaviour will be welcomed by researchers with an interest in economic geography, international economies and business, European and East Asian studies, and globalization.

Author : James C. W. Ahiakpor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415022828

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Multinationals and Economic Development by James C. W. Ahiakpor Pdf

Multinationals dominate world trade and direct investment. However, less developed countries have often regarded this power as detrimental to their fragile, growing economies and have pursued a policy of regulation. Modern economic theories of multinationals need to evaluate the effects of such policies.

Author : Peter Robson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 041508542X

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Transnational Corporations and Regional Economic Integration by Peter Robson Pdf

Author : Jeremy Alden,Nicholas F. Phelps
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136038723

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Foreign Direct Investment and the Global Economy by Jeremy Alden,Nicholas F. Phelps Pdf

With the emergence of a truly global marketplace, regions now face far greater competition in attracting outside investment, and multinational companies have to consider local conditions on many levels before choosing to invest. Foreign Direct Investment and the Global Economy looks at the pattern of FDI and its impacts on the global, regional (trade block), national and sub-national scales. The contributors describe the much discussed global-local interlay apparent in the operations of multinational companies and their involvement with 'regulatory' institutions at different levels, from the global to the local.

Author : Hans O. Lundström
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Europe
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120863258

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Capital Movements and Economic Integration by Hans O. Lundström Pdf

Author : Tamim A. Bayoumi
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0719047005

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Financial Integration and Real Activity by Tamim A. Bayoumi Pdf

If history matters for understanding key development outcomes then surely historians should be active contributors to the debates informing these understandings. This volume integrates, for the first time, contributions from ten leading historians and seven policy advisors around the central development issues of social protection, public health, public education and natural resource management. How did certain ideas, and not others, gain traction in shaping particular policy responses? How did the content and effectiveness of these responses vary across different countries, and indeed within them? Achieving this is not merely a matter of seeking to 'know more' about specific times, places and issues, but recognising the distinctive ways in which historians rigorously assemble, analyse and interpret diverse forms of evidence. This book will appeal to students and scholars in development studies, history, international relations, politics and geography as well as policy makers and those working for or studying NGOs.

Author : Lee E. Preston,Duane Windsor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000111810

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The Rules of the Game in the Global Economy by Lee E. Preston,Duane Windsor Pdf

This book analyzes the evolution of `international policy regimes' affecting the development and management of international business. The authors explain the nature of international regimes, and show how the interlinked processes of global economic integration and multinational enterprise expansion make the development of regimes both inevitable and desirable. They then examine several major types of regimes currently in place, including those that have emerged from global or regional institutions such as the United Nations (UN) and the European Community (EC), as well as those dealing with functional areas such as international trade and payments, sea and air transportation, and environmental issues. They conclude with an assessment of the critical similarities and differences among existing regimes, the most likely direction and scope of future regime development and the important implications of regime evolution for international management.

Author : Naoto Jinji,Xingyuan Zhang,Shoji Haruna
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Economic history
ISBN : 9789811652103

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Deep Integration, Global Firms, and Technology Spillovers by Naoto Jinji,Xingyuan Zhang,Shoji Haruna Pdf

This open access book explores the impact of deep regional economic integration on spillovers of knowledge and technology across countries. Deep integration through signing deep regional trade agreements (DRTAs), which cover various policy areas in addition to tariff reductions, may or may not facilitate technology spillovers among their signatories. To understand the mechanism of the impact of deep integration on technology spillovers, this book starts by analyzing the behavior of global firms. Factors that affect global firms' activities, such as export, foreign direct investment (FDI), offshore outsourcing, are examined. Micro data on Japanese firms are employed for the analysis. Then, the relationships between bilateral trade patterns and technology spillovers and between types of FDI and technology spillovers are investigated in detail. Patent citation data are used to measure technology spillovers. Finally, the impact of DRTAs on international technology spillovers is analyzed. This book is highly recommended to readers who are interested in the effects of deep regional integration, including academic scholars, policymakers, and graduate students. [Resumen de la editorial]

Author : Miroslav N. Jovanović
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849806008

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International Handbook on the Economics of Integration by Miroslav N. Jovanović Pdf

'International Handbook on the Economics of Integration edited by Miroslav Jovanovi? provides timely and rich academic contributions to considerations of the widest array of integration-related issues. European integration has been providing an inspiration to a number of academics and researchers. the Handbook is a recognition of the dynamic and strong solidarity of European integration. At the same time, the European Union often provided an example for integration schemes throughout the world which spread enormously since the mid-1990s. Leading experts from all continents contributed to this Handbook which will be a valuable input into academic and policy-making discussions and actions.' - José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission

Author : World Bank Group
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464815430

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Global Investment Competitiveness Report 2019/2020 by World Bank Group Pdf

The Global Investment Competitiveness Report 2019-2020 provides novel analytical insights, empirical evidence, and actionable recommendations for governments seeking to enhance investor confidence in times of uncertainty. The report's findings and policy recommendations are organized around "3 ICs" - they provide guidance to governments on how to increase investments' contributions to their country's development, enhance investor confidence, and foster their economies' investment competitiveness. The report presents results of a new survey of more than 2,400 business executives representing FDI in 10 large developing countries: Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Thailand, Turkey, and Vietnam. The results show that over half of surveyed foreign businesses have already been adversely affected by policy uncertainty, experiencing a decrease in employment, firm productivity, or investment. Foreign investors report that supporting political environments, stable macroeconomic conditions, and conducive regulatory regimes are their top three investment decision factors. Moreover, the report's new global database of regulatory risk shows that predictability and transparency increase investor confidence and FDI flows. The report also assesses the impact of FD! on poverty, inequality, employment, and firm performance using evidence from various countries. It shows that FDI in developing countries yields benefits to their firms and citizens-including more and better-paid jobs-but governments need to be vigilant about possible adverse consequences on income distribution. The report is organized in S chapters: Chapter 1 presents the results of the foreign investor survey. Chapter 2 explores the differential performance and development impact of greenfield FDI, local firms acquired by multinational corporations {i.e. brownfield FDI), and domestically-owned firms using evidence from six countries. Chapter 3 assesses the impact of FDI on poverty, inequality, employment and wages, using case study evidence from Ethiopia, Turkey and Vietnam. Chapter 4 presents a new framework to measure FDI regulatory risk that is linked to specific legal and regulatory measures. Chapter S focuses on factors for increasing the effectiveness of investment promotion agencies.

Author : Ann Harrison
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226318004

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Globalization and Poverty by Ann Harrison Pdf

Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is because of—or in spite of—globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization’s perils and promises, economists have largely remained silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and poverty to provide a detailed view of the effects of globalization on the poor in developing nations, answering such questions as: Do lower import tariffs improve the lives of the poor? Has increased financial integration led to more or less poverty? How have the poor fared during various currency crises? Does food aid hurt or help the poor? Poverty, the contributors show here, has been used as a popular and convenient catchphrase by parties on both sides of the globalization debate to further their respective arguments. Globalization and Poverty provides the more nuanced understanding necessary to move that debate beyond the slogans.

Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada),Chia-Siow Yue,Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0889368066

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Multinationals and East Asian Integration by International Development Research Centre (Canada),Chia-Siow Yue,Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Pdf

Multinationals and East Asian Integration

Author : Mary E Lovely
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789813141094

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International Economic Integration and Domestic Performance by Mary E Lovely Pdf

International Economic Integration and Domestic Performance brings together the essays of Mary E Lovely focused on the relationship between international economic integration and domestic performance. It is a collection of sole-authored and co-authored papers that have been published in various scholarly journals over the last two decades. The first section considers the welfare effects and optimal design of retail sales taxes when consumers can avoid taxation by crossing jurisdictional boundaries. The second section highlights the role of scale economies in the design of industrial policies and as a determinant of firm location. The third section explores the influence of environmental policy on foreign investor's location decisions and the role of trade and technology on country's environmental regulation. The final section considers the determinants of wage differences, the attraction of low wages for foreign investors, and misallocations of labor in an emerging economy — China. The collection, taken as a whole, highlights the power of international factor mobility to determine domestic tax burdens, to influence welfare implications of domestic policy alternatives, and to influence the location of productive factors and their rewards.

Author : Bela Balassa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136646317

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The Theory of Economic Integration (Routledge Revivals) by Bela Balassa Pdf

First published in 1962, The Theory of Economic Integration provides an excellent exposition of a complex and far-reaching topic. Professor Balassa has been remarkably successful in covering so much ground with such care and balance, in a treatment which is neither in any way abstruse nor unnecessarily technical. His book will interest economists in Europe by reason of its subject and treatment, but it is also a valuable and reliable textbook for students tackling integration as part of a course of International Economics and for those studying Public Finance. He distinguishes between the various forms of integration (free trade area, customs union, common market, economics union, and total integration). In addition, he applies the theoretical principles to current projects such as the European Common Market and Free Trade Area, and to Latin American integration projects. In offering this theoretical study, the author builds on the conclusions of other writers, but goes beyond this in providing a unifying framework for previous contributions and in exploring questions that in the past received little attention – in particular, the relationship between economic integration and growth (especially the interrelationship between market size and growth, and the implications of various factors for economic growth in an integrated area).

Author : Robert J. Barro,Jong-Wha Lee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199780778

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Costs and Benefits of Economic Integration in Asia by Robert J. Barro,Jong-Wha Lee Pdf

Costs and Benefits of Economic Integration in Asia brings together authoritative essays that identify and examine various initiatives to promote economic integration in Asia.