The present paper adds to the literature investigating the effects of outward FDI on the home country employment and skill composition. Considering the "industrial region" as the unit of the analysis, we capture both direct and indirect effects of foreign production on the parent company and its...

The present paper addresses the issue of the determinants of the growth of multinational banks upon foreign markets at a micro individual level. Theories and approaches suggested so far about globalisation of the banking sector basically relate banks' international growth to the theory of the...

The flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) to Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) increased rapidly from the end of the last decade. The upheavals which led to dramatic changes in the social, political and economic environment paved the way to western firms for unique opportunities to expand into...