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Foreign Direct Investment and Employment: Home Country Experience in the United States and Sweden

Blomstrom, M.; Fors, G.; Lipsey, R.E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

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...

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QUID PRO QUO FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND POLICY INTERVENTION.

DINOPOULOS, E.; WONG, K-Y. - Department of Economics, University of Washington - 1990

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Privatization and Foreign investments: The Case of Serbia and Montenegro

Popov, Djordje - In: Transition Studies Review 11 (2004) 3, pp. 196-209

The paper analyzes the privatization process with the participation of foreign investments in countries in transition. Privatization is a necessity in transition countries as a prerequisite of the move to a market economy. Foreign investments are of great importance for the economies of the...

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Ukraine Economy and Finance in the Reform Process and the European Partnership: A Focus on Aerospace Industry

Dominese, Giorgio - In: Transition Studies Review 12 (2005) 2, pp. 257-292

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Tendencies Qualitative and Changes in the Automotive Industry

Manea, Simona - In: Annals of the University of Petrosani, Economics 5 (2005), pp. 223-228

The late privatization of Dacia Company delayed the investments in the horizontal industry. Unlike the rest of the countries from Central and Eastern Europe, where car industry developed rapidly because of the investments made by big world producers, in our country this process is only at the...

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Third World Multinationals: The Rise of Foreign Investments from Developing Countries

Wells, Louis T. - The MIT Press

manufacturing and consuming high-quality, high-technology products and are establishing foreign subsidiaries, most often in other …

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Analysing foreign market entry – The choice between greenfield investment and acquisitions

Görg, Holger - In: Journal of Economic Studies 27 (2000) September, pp. 165-181

high-technology firm, thus, forming a duopoly with an indigenous low-technology firm. We also discuss briefly the strategic …

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What Drives the Global "Land Rush"?

Arezki, Rabah; Deininger, Klaus; Selod, Harris - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013

We review evidence regarding the size and evolution of the "land rush" in the wake of the 2007-2008 boom in agricultural commodity prices and study determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agricultural investment. Using data on bilateral investment relationships to estimate...

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Export platform foreign direct investment : theory and evidence

Ito, Tadashi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

This paper proposes a model that accounts for â€œexport platformâ€ FDI â€“ a form of FDI that is common in the data but rarely discussed in the theoretical literature. Unlike the previous literature, this paperâ€™s theory nests all the typical modes of supply, including exports,...

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Technological Transfers and Foreign Multinationals in Emerging Markets: Derosne & Cail in the 19th Century

Fernández-de-Pinedo, Nadia; Castro, Rafael; Pretel, David - Departamento de Análisis Económico: Teoría … - 2014

Did multinationals already existed in the 19th century? and if so, what was their role in international technology … sugar technology and railway equipment to emerging colonial plantations. This firm was indeed an early multinational that … new technology to local conditions and helped spread the necessary practical knowledge for the operation of the machines …

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