The 'One Belt and One Road' (OBOR) project was started by the Chinese government with the aim of achieving sustainable economic development and increasing cooperation with other countries. This project has five major objectives, which include (i) increasing trade flow, (ii) encouraging policy...

Neben internationalen Exporten stellen grenzüberschreitende Investitionen du rch multinationale Unternehmungen (MNU) die zweite Säule der globalen ökonomischen Integration dar. Während Exporte in den letzten 40 Jahren vor der letzten Finanzmarktkrise durchschnittlich einen jährlichen...

Die aktuellsten Entwicklungen zu ausländischen Direktinvestitionen werden im jährlichen World Investment Report der Vereinten Nationen ausführlich dargestellt. Dieser Artikel fasst die wesentlichen Entwicklungen des letzten Jahres zusammen und geht auch auf das Schwerpunkthema »Investitionen...

Die UNCTAD veröffentlicht im Rahmen des World Investment Reports detaillierte Daten und Analysen zu den neuesten Trends bei ausländischen Direktinvestitionen. Der Artikel fasst die wesentlichen Erntwicklungen des letzten Jahres zusammen und geht auf das Schwerpunktthema des diesjährigen...

This study is the first to estimate a system of simultaneous gravity equations for Chinese exports, imports and foreign direct investment (FDI) using a sample of 167 countries over the period 2003-2012. The main results indicate that trade and outward FDI are complementary. In particular, the...

Non-traditional source countries of FDI play an increasingly important role, notably in developing host countries. This raises the question of whether the location choices differ systematically between traditional and non-traditional source countries. We perform Logit and Poisson Pseudo Maximum...

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...

This article aims to analyze how the financial crisis that bursted in the mid-2008 led to a global and regional drop in trade flows. It starts from a comparison of the Great Depression shock to what happened during the Great Recession. Based on the similarities and differences found in the...

The paper presents the main aspects related to the modernisation process of the European Union customs legislation and identifies a series of benefits that arise from implementing the measures of the Modernised Community customs code. In this context, foreign trade companies must adapt their...