In January–September 2013, as compared to the respective period of the previous year foreign investments into Russian economy rose by 15.7% which is justified by growth in direct investments and other investments carried out on a recurrent basis. The shares of the above investments in the...

Foreign investment inflow increased 65.4% in Q1 2013. Accumulated foreign investments in Russia’s economy increased 0.7% against the beginning of the year. Withdrawn capital saw a 3-fold contraction against January– March 2012, its volume accounting for 40.2% of foreign investment inflow...

In the first six months, growth in foreign investments in the Russian economy was registered. The highest growth rates were observed with the direct investments segment whose unit weight in the aggregate indices rose to 12.3%. The volume of the withdrawn capital amounted to 63.2% of the volume...

We compare the relation between foreign affiliate production and parent employment in U.S. manufacturing multinationals with that in Swedish firms. U.S. multinationals appear to have allocated some of their more labor intensive operations selling in world markets to affiliates in developing...

In the past decade, a number of Third World countries have emerged from their economic status as sources of raw materials or as sweatshops in which low-wage, low-skilled workers produced goods for the richer nations. Now they are themselves manufacturing and consuming high-quality,...

This paper proposes a model that accounts for “export platform†FDI – a form of FDI that is common in the data but rarely discussed in the theoretical literature. Unlike the previous literature, this paper’s theory nests all the typical modes of supply, including exports,...

Research on multinational firms’ activity has been conducted widely since late 1980s. The literature is differentiated into three types: horizontal FDI, vertical FDI, and three-country FDI, represented by export platform FDI. There are other methods of differentiation of the literature by...

To prepare an answer to the question of how a developing country can attract FDI, this paper explored the factors and policies that may help bring FDI into a developing country by utilizing an extended version of the knowledge-capital model. With a special focus on the effects of FTAs/EPAs...

The recent increase in R&D offshoring has raised fears that knowledge and competitiveness in advanced countries may be at risk of ‘hollowing out’. At the same time, economic research has stressed that this process is also likely to allow some reverse technology transfer and foster growth at...

Foreign firms have clustered together in the Yangtze River Delta, and their impact on domestic firms is an important policy issue. This paper studies the spatial effect of FDI agglomeration on the regional productivity of domestic firms, using Chinese firm-level data. To identify local FDI...