Foreign Investments And Political Regimes

Author : Oksan Bayulgen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Investments, Foreign
ISBN : 9780521425889

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Foreign Investments and Political Regimes by Oksan Bayulgen Pdf

"Political democratization and economic globalization have been two of the most important global trends of the past few decades. But, how are they connected? Do the domestic political institutions affect a country's attractiveness to foreign investors? Can countries that democratize attract relatively more foreign investments? Drawing on three in-depth case studies of oil-rich countries and statistical analyses of 132 countries over three decades, Oksan Bayulgen demonstrates that the link between democratization and FDI is nonlinear. Both authoritarian regimes and consolidated democracies have institutional capabilities that, though different, are attractive to foreign investors. Democracies can provide long-term stability, and authoritarian regimes can offer considerable flexibility. The regimes that have started on the road to democracy, but have not yet completed it, tend to have political institutions that provide neither flexibility nor stability. These hybrid regimes, then, also find it relatively more difficult to construct a policy environment that is attractive to foreign investments. These findings have deep implications for the link between democratization and globalization, but also how globalization may affect political, social, and economic development"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Jonathan Bonnitcha,Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen,Michael Waibel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191030246

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The Political Economy of the Investment Treaty Regime by Jonathan Bonnitcha,Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen,Michael Waibel Pdf

Investment treaties are some of the most controversial but least understood instruments of global economic governance. Public interest in international investment arbitration is growing and some developed and developing countries are beginning to revisit their investment treaty policies. The Political Economy of the Investment Treaty Regime synthesises and advances the growing literature on this subject by integrating legal, economic, and political perspectives. Based on an analysis of the substantive and procedural rights conferred by investment treaties, it asks four basic questions. What are the costs and benefits of investment treaties for investors, states, and other stakeholders? Why did developed and developing countries sign the treaties? Why should private arbitrators be allowed to review public regulations passed by states? And what is the relationship between the investment treaty regime and the broader regime complex that governs international investment? Through a concise, but comprehensive, analysis, this book fills in some of the many "blind spots" of academics from different disciplines, and is the first port of call for lawyers, investors, policy-makers, and stakeholders trying to make sense of these critical instruments governing investor-state relations.

Author : Helge Hveem,Carl Henrik Knutsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136309922

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Governance and Knowledge by Helge Hveem,Carl Henrik Knutsen Pdf

This book examines the politics of technology, and provides a detailed analysis of developments and debates within the European Union, international trade and governance. An important empirical contribution to the literature on the relations between politics and technology, this volume contains empirical statistical studies based on a wide variety of different types of data, and includes expert contributions from different academic disciplines. With a selection of detailed case studies, this book is divided into three main sections: The first part presents contributions on the role of domestic national policies for innovation and idea diffusion, including studies on Japan and the European Union. The second part takes a critical look at how the international system of intellectual property rights access to knowledge, opportunities for development and health improvement, examining the TRIPS agreement and the European patent system. The third part focuses on the role of foreign direct investment in innovation and idea diffusion, with studies on a wide range of cases using different, novel data material. Governance and Knowledge will be of interest to students, scholars and policy-makers of European politics, political economy, international trade, governance and economics.

Author : Dan Haendel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429726651

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Foreign Investments And The Management Of Political Risk by Dan Haendel Pdf

This volume focuses on the efforts that multinational enterprises (MNEs) can and must make to evaluate and deal with the political risks they confront in host countries. After discussing various aspects of the relationships between MNEs and host countries, the author considers the definitional and conceptual issues of political risk. He examines th

Author : Oksan Bayulgen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107436923

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Foreign Investment and Political Regimes by Oksan Bayulgen Pdf

Political democratization and economic globalization have been two of the most important global trends of the past few decades. But, how are they connected? Do the domestic political institutions affect a country's attractiveness to foreign investors? Can countries that democratize attract relatively more foreign investments? Drawing on three in-depth case studies of oil-rich countries and statistical analyses of 132 countries over three decades, Oksan Bayulgen demonstrates that the link between democratization and FDI is nonlinear. Both authoritarian regimes and consolidated democracies have institutional capabilities that, though different, are attractive to foreign investors. Democracies can provide long-term stability, and authoritarian regimes can offer considerable flexibility. The regimes that have started on the road to democracy, but have not yet completed it, tend to have political institutions that provide neither flexibility nor stability. These hybrid regimes, then, also find it relatively more difficult to construct a policy environment that is attractive to foreign investments. These findings have deep implications for the link between democratization and globalization, but also how globalization may affect political, social, and economic development.

Author : Pablo M. Pinto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107019102

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Partisan Investment in the Global Economy by Pablo M. Pinto Pdf

Pinto develops a partisan theory of foreign direct investment (FDI) arguing that left-wing governments choose policies that allow easier entry by foreign investors more than right-wing governments, and that foreign investors prefer to invest in countries governed by the left. To reach this determination, the book derives the conditions under which investment flows should be expected to affect the relative demand for the services supplied by economic actors in host countries. Based on these expected distributive consequences, a political economy model of the regulation of FDI and changes in investment performance within countries and over time is developed. The theory is tested using both cross-national statistical analysis and two case studies exploring the development of the foreign investment regimes and their performance over the past century in Argentina and South Korea.

Author : Nathan Jensen
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780472051762

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Politics and Foreign Direct Investment by Nathan Jensen Pdf

What makes a country attractive to multinational corporations?

Author : Earl H. Fry
Publisher : New York ; Montreal : McGraw-Hill
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037459489

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The Politics of International Investment by Earl H. Fry Pdf

Author : Jenny Rebecca Kehl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 1626373477

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Foreign Investment and Domestic Development by Jenny Rebecca Kehl Pdf

How is it that billions of dollars flow through the developing world without altering its reality of poverty and scarcity? Jenny Kehl explores the crucial relationship between foreign direct investment and domestic development, focusing on the wide variation in the capacity of governments to negotiate FDI to the advantage of their citizens. To isolate the influence of political factors, Kehl examines one of the largest foreign investors, General Motors, in its relations with six host countries representing a range of political systems. Her cases, along with her larger statistical study, soundl.

Author : Stephen D. Krasner,Harvard University. Center for International Affairs
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1978-11-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691021829

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Defending the National Interest by Stephen D. Krasner,Harvard University. Center for International Affairs Pdf

The book's basic analytic assumption is that there is a distinction between state and society. "Defending the National Interest" shows that the problem for political analysis is how to identify the underlying social structure and the political mechanisms through which particular societal groups determine the government's behavior.

Author : Indra de Soysa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134532179

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Foreign Direct Investment, Democracy and Development by Indra de Soysa Pdf

The effects of globalization on economy and society are highly contested subjects in academic and political arenas. This study brings an empirical perspective to the crucially important arguments that encapsulate the major debates in this area. Using quantitative data, this book addresses the shape and degree of internationalisation by focussing on

Author : Nathan M. Jensen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400837373

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Nation-States and the Multinational Corporation by Nathan M. Jensen Pdf

What makes a country attractive to foreign investors? To what extent do conditions of governance and politics matter? This book provides the most systematic exploration to date of these crucial questions at the nexus of politics and economics. Using quantitative data and interviews with investment promotion agencies, investment location consultants, political risk insurers, and decision makers at multinational corporations, Nathan Jensen arrives at a surprising conclusion: Countries may be competing for international capital, but government fiscal policy--both taxation and spending--has little impact on multinationals' investment decisions. Although government policy has a limited ability to determine patterns of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows, political institutions are central to explaining why some countries are more successful in attracting international capital. First, democratic institutions lower political risks for multinational corporations. Indeed, they lead to massive amounts of foreign direct investment. Second, politically federal institutions, in contrast to fiscally federal institutions, lower political risks for multinationals and allow host countries to attract higher levels of FDI inflows. Third, the International Monetary Fund, often cited as a catalyst for promoting foreign investment, actually deters multinationals from investment in countries under IMF programs. Even after controlling for the factors that lead countries to seek IMF support, IMF agreements are associated with much lower levels of FDI inflows.

Author : Philipp Harms
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461545217

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International Investment, Political Risk, and Growth by Philipp Harms Pdf

Following substantial policy reforms in many countries, the past decade has been characterized by a remarkable increase of long-term private capital flows to the developing world. However, the bulk of these investments has concentrated on a few economies at the intermediate level of the international income distribution, while the large number of low-income countries has been mostly neglected by international investors. Starting from these observations, International Investment, Political Risk, and Growth analyzes the potential growth effects of liberalizing investment regimes in developing economies and offers an explanation for the apparent bias of private capital flows towards middle-income countries. It demonstrates that the removal of investment barriers may liberate an economy from a vicious circle of poverty, unproductive saving, and low growth, and presents a novel approach to analyzing the role of political risk as a major impediment to greater private capital inflows. Offering a combination of theoretical models and empirical analysis, and discussing both the historical evidence and the recent literature, this book contributes to a better understanding of the determinants and consequences of international investment in developing countries.

Author : Charlotte H. Brink
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351918978

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Measuring Political Risk by Charlotte H. Brink Pdf

Offering a fresh, transparent approach encompassing new material, this invigorating volume measures political risk - for instance the risk that foreign investment might face in any country. It also demonstrates how progress or regress made in good governance initiatives as conditionalities to aid can be assessed. Governments can monitor their own policy environment(s), and take remedial action if necessary. The methodology allows for measurement of previously un-quantified 'soft' factors that add to the risks foreign investors might face, demonstrating why these factors are of importance to both risk assertive and risk averse investors. Features include: - 103 contextualized, measurable risk factors and their 411 risk factor indicators. - Guidelines to using these factors in order to perform generic macro analyses, or micro, client/project/industry-specific analyses. - Explanation of the methodology with which to comprehensively measure the probability of risk occurring in any macro or micro investment climate.

Author : John M. Rothgeb
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996-10-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780275945480

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Foreign Investment and Political Conflict in Developing Countries by John M. Rothgeb Pdf

This study systematically investigates the degree to which international economic linkages are related to domestic political conflict in developing countries. In the years since World War II, the interconnections among the members of the international system have multiplied rapidly, and the resulting dependence and interdependence has reached the point where many scholars and political leaders believe that these ties have profound implications for the political environments within the affected countries. This analysis, therefore, seeks to develop a greater theoretical understanding of the means by which international forces, specifically foreign investment, affect the domestic political scene in developing countries, and to provide policymakers and investors with a firmer foundation for the decisions and investments they make.