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Russia's emerging multinationals: trends and issues

Filippov, Sergey - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

The paper focuses on the emergence of Russia's multinational companies. It aims to analyse their motives to internationalise as well as the approaches to internationalisation. While relevance of the theoretical perspectives is highlighted, the intention of the paper is to contribute to the...

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Defining and Measuring Green FDI: An Exploratory Review of Existing Work and Evidence

Golub, Stephen S.; Kauffmann, Céline; Yeres, Philip - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2011

This paper was developed at the request of the OECD Working Party of the Investment Committee to document efforts to date to define and measure green FDI and to investigate the practicability of various possible definitions, as well as to identify investment policy restrictions to green FDI. It...

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Much Ado About Nothing? Do Domestic Firms Really Benefit from Foreign Investment?

Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

empirical evidence on productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although …

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Technology Transfer and Spillovers in International Joint Ventures

Müller, Thomas; Schnitzer, Monika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

It is often argued that multinationals are reluctant to transfer technology due to the fear of spillovers. We show that this need not be the case if host country policies like taxation are taken into account. Furthermore, we examine the incentives the multinational and the host country have to...

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Environmental Technology Transfer in a FDI Regime A Developing Country Perspective

One, Author; Two, Author; Thirdone, U. - EconWPA - 2002

The environmental impact of Foreign Direct Investment is still to be explored totally. It is often argued that investment may come to a region or country where environment protection norms are less strict. Investors may be induced to outsource their pollution-intensive production where the...

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International Joint Venture and the Technology of the Future

Marjit, Sugata; Mukherjee, Arijit; Kabiraj, Tarun - Centre for Economic Research, School of Economics and … - 2001

We consider the possibility of forming a joint venture (JV) between a local firm and a foreign multinational in a situation when there is no current gain from such an arrangement. In the presence of policy uncertainty and threat of entry, a current period formation of JV with the multinational,...

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FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS IN POLAND: TREND AND EFFECTS ON THE ECONOMY

Denisia, VINTILA - In: Revista Economica 63.4-5 (2012) 4-5, pp. 234-251

Countries of Central and Eastern Europe opened their economies to foreign investors in 1990. Poland became the leader of foreign direct investments (FDI) inflows in 1996 and proved to be the most attractive country of the region. Having the most stable economy in the region and becoming a member...

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Foreign Direct Investment, Technology Transfer, and Productivity Growth in Transition Countries Empirical Evidence from Panel Data

Torlak, Elvisa - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2004

the productivity effect of: (a) foreign ownership in firms, and (b) foreign presence in industries and regions. In the … productivity. In the second case, the impact of foreign investment on productivity of domestically owned firms turns out to be …

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Financial structure, productivity, and risk of foreign direct investment

ZHANG, Jiarui; HOU, Lei - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (2014) 3, pp. 652-669

. The hidden information is the productivity shock to FDI. Banks are willing to monitor the risk of FDI, while bondholders …’ productivity levels, the riskiness of FDI, and the relative costs of bank finance and bond finance are three key determinants of … the firm’s financing choice. Countries with higher productivity, higher bank costs, or investment in less risky …

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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap

Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...

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