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The paper raises the proposition that Central Europe?s integration into the international division of labour has added significantly to competitive pressure in the German automobile industry. Based on production and trade data, we trace two dimensions of competitive pressure: relocation of...

There is a startling gap between current thinking on, allegedly, globalization-induced changes in international competition for foreign direct investment (FDI) and the lack of recent empirical evidence on shifts in the relative importance of traditional and non-traditional determinants of FDI in...

The rise in foreign direct investment flowing to developing countries has created high expectations that, by drawing on this source of external financing, developing countries could initiate or accelerate processes of economic catching-up to advanced industrialized countries. By contrast, the...

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Singapore?s outward FDI is peculiar in important respects, even though it shares some characteristics with FDI undertaken by traditional investor countries. The focus of FDI in the manufacturing sector on lower-income Asian host countries suggests that the motivations and trade repercussions of...

Trotz des Booms ausländischer Direktinvestitionen in Lateinamerika klafft zwischen Wunsch und Wirklichkeit immer noch eine erhebliche Lücke. Bei vielen Standortfaktoren fällt die Region weiterhin hinter die Attraktivität asiatischer Konkurrenten zurück. Auch innerhalb Lateinamerikas...