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This paper attempts to measure the size of South-South FDI in developing East Asia and the trends in it, and the … differences between South-South FDI and North-South FDI. Among the comparisons of the two types of FDI we try to summarize are be …
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Sweden is home to remarkably many large, prosperous multinationals. We argue that this is partly the result of industrial policies that have been biased in favor of large firms, and an institutional setting where regulations and controls have facilitated investment abroad by Swedish firms, while...
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The existence of spillover efficiency benefits to host country economies from inward foreign direct investment(FDI) are … exixtence of the relevant externalities. Yet, a good understanding of the determinants of the nature and magnitude of of FDI … available literature foucusing on the determinants of efficiency spillovers from inward FDI. In order to do so, we also outline …
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The existence of spillover efficiency benefits to host country economies from inward foreign direct investment (FDI … magnitude of FDI efficiency spillovers is of crucial importance to policymakers. The primary purpose of this paper is to review … and synthesize the available literature focusing on the determinants of efficiency spillovers from inward FDI. In order to …
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This paper examines spillover effects of the activities of multinational firms. Such effects are most likely to be found in host countries, where the operations of foreign multinationals may influence local firms in the MNCs own industry as well as firms in other industries. However, there is no...
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This paper examines intra-industry spillovers from FDI in Uruguayan manufacturing plants in 1988, to determine whether …
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This paper examines the relationship between regional economic integration and FDI in North America, where two RIAs … impacts of regional trade agreements on intra-regional trade creation and extra-regional FDI stimulation than is associated …
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decades. South East Asia has been part of this development with rapidly increasing inflows of FDI. However, there are large … variations over time and between countries in the region as regard to the policies towards FDI, and in actual inflows of FDI …. This chapter aims at examining the size of FDI in South East Asia and the trends in it. The main determinants of FDI in …
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findings suggest that the most positive impact on FDI has occurred when regional integration agreements have coincided with …
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and FDI also seem to facilitate the transfer of foreign technology to Sweden. However, trade contacts seem to be more … important for technology sourcing in SMEs than in MNEs. Moreover, the results suggest that outward FDI is a significant channel … for the diffusion of foreign technology to MNEs as well as to non- multinational firms, while inward FDI seems to have a …
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