This review presents some lessons learned about indirect foreign direct investment (FDI), mostly over the past decade. Indirect FDI denotes investment projects, in which the ultimate owner is different from the immediate investor. The review categorizes the literature of the 2010s and early...

This ebook contains two succinct essays on the future of foreign direct investment (FDI), and one on the future of Russo–Hungarian investment links. In the first essay István Magas links the future of FDI to three major forces: changes in climate, in demography, and in human behaviour. He...

The war in Ukraine started in February 2022 adds major uncertainties to foreign direct investment (FDI) to and from the Russian Federation and affects it negatively in the short, medium and long run. The degree of the hit will depend on the exact contents of sanctions and counter-sanctions, not...

Highlights: Investment flows into and out of Russia have been rather limited compared with the flows of other major economies of the world. Foreign investment to and from Russia has been sensitive to the inter- national political environment, which improved at the beginning of transition but...

Benefitting from the publication of a new data set by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 2017, this article examines the main characteristics in the realm of state-owned multinationals, especially in terms of their geographical origin, the target countries of...

This chapter examines how the sanctions imposed on Russia after its 2022 invasion of Ukraine have impacted Russian firms, their direct investment abroad, and Hungarian business presence in Russia, and, in particular, how Russian and Hungarian firms have adjusted to this new reality. It...

This second edition of this publication provides an overview of important contemporary issues relating to foreign direct investment (FDI) and multinational enterprises for all those who are interested in this subject, but are not always in a position to follow diverse perspectives and what is...

The key role MNEs play in the global economy through international investment, and the changing landscape of such investment as MNEs as well as host and home economies adjust to changing conditions and objectives, make it important to understand trends and developments with respect to FDI and...