A recent boom in commodities-for-manufactures trade between China and other developing countries has led to much …

Using the international investment regime as its point of departure, the paper applies notions of bounded rationality … risks of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) until they themselves became subject to an investment treaty claim. Thus the … behavior of developing country governments with regard to the international investment regime is consistent with that …

which international financial integration can affect entrepreneurship (a foreign direct investment channel and a capital …

regional-socio economic conditions are crucially important for an understanding of the location investment decisions in the …

firms better than a pure comparative advantage-trade cost framework does. While investment under uncertainty literature is …This is a model of multinational firms, which introduces option value of foreign direct investment, into a framework of … investment rule gives a scale-up factor which implies existence of a wedge between markup revenues and foreign investment costs …

This paper uses a new data-set to examine how internal capital markets and foreign ownership affect investment. Our … data allow us to compare investment behaviour of listed subsidiaries with stand-alone firms while controlling for … investment opportunities of parent and subsidiary firms. We evaluate how the size of ownership and the geographical proximity of …

Studies on the productivity spillovers of FDI have concentrated on the national-sectoral level. As a result, little is … known about the impact of FDI on absolute and relative regional economic performance. In this paper we examine this issue by … regions. In this way, despite the tendency of FDI to concentrate in a few only areas within the country –those of the highest …

as case studies to evaluate China’s diplomatic rhetoric and the degree to which trade and investment realities live up to … China implies. The paper argues that China’s economic involvement in terms of trade, aid, loans and investment is …