Der Verfasser gibt zunächst einen vergleichenden Überblick über die regionale Wirtschaftskraft und über ausländische Direktinvestitionen in Rußland, China und den USA. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden Ergebnisse einer Regressionsanalyse vorgelegt, die nach der relativen Bedeutung...

FDI in to the 10 counties of Lithuania is analyzed for the first time using new regional data now available for this small transition economy. At the county level, Lithuania appears to be exhibiting export led growth which is increasing business and household incomes despite a substantial number...

Foreign Direct Investment in the United States is analyzed using a stochastic production function with FDI as an input. Low but significant technical inefficiency is found across American states similar to earlier studies but now with FDI explicitly accounted for. FDI is found to have a low but...

Regional economic growth in Russia's regions in 1995-2000 is analyzed with particular attention paid to FDI and how it influenced growth during this period. FDI appears to have been essential before the 1998 crisis in helping the economy grow despite the initial chaos of the transition. Larger...

Foreign Direct Investment into Russia's regions during the period 1993-1995 is analyzed using recently available regional data. Russia's regions are shown to be much richer than China's but much poorer than U.S. states though with far less FDI than either country

FDI in to the ten counties of Lithuania 1997-2013 is substantial and widely dispersed. Applying a standard model of FDI impact on regional economic growth reveals dispersion of FDI as well as the amount has contributed to stronger regional growth. Results are not sensitive to the uniqueness of...