This paper is based on the EXIM Bank International Trade Research Annual Award 1990 doctoral thesis "Foreign Direct Investments From India: 1963-83". It brings out the trends in direct foreign investments over the period, the patterns of ownership and control, the sources of technology of the...

This paper analyzes how the European Union has responded to Inward Foreign Direct Investment from Emerging Markets, particularly in the so-called Strategic Industries. Attention is focused on two sectors which have long been considered strategic assets by most countries around the world for...

The general benefits of attracting FDI, HR and firms are commonly recognized by policy makers and analysts. Although it may seem natural to argue that most regions would like to attract FDI investment because it creates jobs, transfers technology and leads to more trade, existent literature...

Foreign direct investments from India, although not exactly a recent phenomenon, has attracted the attention of scholars only in the recent past. Nevertheless a fairly substantial literature has emerged on the phenomenon of foreign direct investments (FDI) from the LDCs. The published literature...

The ownership nationality of large US multinational companies plays an implicit but important role in the current debate over how such companies should be taxed. This paper identifies that role and investigates what is actually known about where these companies’ shareholders reside

Despite the fact that one-third of worldwide mergers involve firms from different countries, the vast majority of the academic literature on mergers studies domestic mergers. What little has been written about cross-border mergers has focused on public firms, usually from the United States. Yet,...

Inward FDI flows over 2000-01 from many source countries into India, one of the fastest growing large developing economies in the period, have been explained by an extended gravity model and the an extended allometric models by incorporating other variables such as common language, tax status,...