investors choose CoBO as investment vehicle to avail the competent business opportunities in both emerging and budding economies. …

multi-dimensional concept. A country can be open or not so open, in all or some of the following directions: trade, exports …, imports, finance, science, culture, education, migration, foreign investment, investment by its citizens and companies abroad …

This paper argues that Japanese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in China plays a critical role in home and host country …’s bilateral trade imbalances with the U.S. Using six cross-sectional panel data from 1981 to 2007, we find strong evidence in … support of the role of Japanese FDI in mounting U.S.-China trade imbalance and in reducing deficit of U.S. trade with Japan …

’ incentive to outsource. Consumer gains from trade liberalisation are enhanced when it leads to less outsourcing. …

The issue of outsourcing as a form of foreign direct investment (FDI) has been widely discussed in the recent past. In …, transportation costs, and private gross fixed investment in information technology. My analysis finds differences in the effects of …

The paper examines theoretically the empirical observation or increasing levels of intra-industrial trade flows. The … relationship between intra-industrial trade and consumer preferences in addition to product differentiation advanced by … internationally active firms are discussed within the framework of a simple model of international trade in differentiated goods. In …