This report focuses on new results produced by the project to monitor direct investments in Eurasia. The project is being implemented by the EDB Centre for Integration Studies in fruitful partnership with the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of...

Global flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) have slowed down in recent years, which particularly affected developed countries, including those in the European Un- ion (EU). A general decrease in capital circulation in the form of FDI between the EU and the rest of the world has been...

The creation of the European Monetary Union (EMU) created the conditions for increased trade and economic growth for the member countries. The initial hypothesis regarding the impact of euro launch in terms of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows was that monetary integration will affect...

Russian version is available at: 'https://ssrn.com/abstract=3090888' https://ssrn.com/abstract=3090888This report presents the latest findings of a research project on the monitoring of direct investments in Eurasia, which is being implemented by the EDB Centre for Integration Studies and the...

I use panel data of sales by the foreign subsidiaries of the U.S. MNCs to examine whether trading blocs create more or less FDI and the impacts on FDI of the extended market size created by forming blocs. By employing a region-fixed effects model, I find that countries forming trading blocs...

In this paper it is argued that the restructuring following the stiffer competition stemming from increased global integration will trigger a race between countries to attract inward foreign direct investment (FDI). It is further argued that this race consists of last minute efforts and...

We study the impact of the 2016 Brexit referendum on UK foreign direct investment. Using the synthetic control method to construct appropriate counterfactuals, we show that by March 2019 the Leave vote had led to a 17% increase in the number of UK outward investment transactions in the remaining...

We analyze the impact of multinational enterprises (MNEs), via their foreign direct investment (FDI), on domestic firms in 30 European host economies, from 2001 to 2013. We incorporate international industrial and trade linkages into a standard theoretical framework and test them empirically on...

In this paper, we investigate internationalization strategies of German manufacturing firms in the European Union. We give reasons for the hypothesis that traditional market strategies had been replaced by border-crossing production networking based on the comparative advantage of host countries...

A growing strand of literature highlights that skilled migration may favour growth-enhancing technology transfer, trade and foreign direct investments between the source and the host economies of migrants (net-work effects). We explore a specific channel through which the possible "diaspora...