This text presents the main points of the debate about the mechanisms of attraction and facilitation of foreign direct investment. Recently several countries have questioned the traditional model of investment agreements. One of the remarkable dimensions in the agenda of several multinational...

This text presents the main points of the debate about the mechanisms of attraction and facilitation of foreign direct investment. Recently several countries have questioned the traditional model of investment agreements. One of the remarkable dimensions in the agenda of several multinational...

This article documents the presence of foreign firms in the sectors of energy and strategic minerals of the Brazilian economy. For this purpose, it was employed the information provided by the Brazilian Federal Revenue Office on it. The results indicated little importance for foreign companies....

This paper analyzes the logic of expansion of multinational corporations and their determinants in order to understand the dynamics and the main features of global flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) from the eighties. This is an analytical review of historical and theoretical approach that...

Except for Brazil, Latin American countries considerably expanded their bilateral investment treaties (BITs) networks during the 1990s in an attempt to expand FDI inflows. Although the theory on the subject predicts a positive relationship between the inflow of FDI and the conclusion of these...

During the last three decades, a vast literature emerged on the empirical evidence of productivity spillovers from FDI. This is related to the fact that multinational firms own intangible assets which may be transmitted to domestic firms and thereby raise their productivity level. Results...

This paper evaluates the main determinants of the American Foreign Direct Investment (IDE) flows throughout the recent period. We estimate a gravity model for testing the hypothesis that transnational corporations' decisions concerning IDE are influenced by the sector of activity to which they...

Over the past decades, Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRICs) have assumed an important role in international relations, in particular with regard to the foreign direct investment (FDI). This group of economies, albeit under different intensities, ceased to be mere recipients of FDI to become...

The general aim of this work is to contribute to the discussion of the globalization process in the international automobile industry. It must be pointed out, however, that it has an exploratory character. Specifically, we will approach 1) the general basic characteristics of the globalization...

Spanish Abstract: La migración tanto interna como externa es un concepto difícil de definir dada su dinámica social, económica y política tan variada y cambiante. Las definiciones están asociadas a las razones por las cuales se produce este fenómeno y las posibilidades individuales o...