economic activity, this paper discusses the scope for FDI as an instrument of regional policy aimed at offsetting the … centripetal forces unleashed by liberalisation. Focusing on Sweden, the paper finds no signs that FDI has contributed to reducing … - including support for FDI - have not performed better in terms of employment, labour productivity, and education levels than …

geographic patterns of foreign direct investment (FDI). This chapter reviews existing theories and evidence specifically … addressing questions including: How is FDI distributed across space? Why does the law of gravity apply? How do the costs of … FDI and present the key empirical studies and findings …

emphasis on the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in determining micro economic performance. Using a new worldwide … multinationals around the world responded to the crisis relative to local firms. We explore three distinct channels through which FDI … is considerable heterogeneity in the role of FDI. First, multinationals located in countries that experienced sharper …