Since the mid-1980s Japan has been one of the world's leading sources of foreign direct investment (FDI) reflecting the continuing internationalisation of Japanese corporations. This paper provides a broad survey of trends in Japanese FDI in the postwar period and considers its motivations and...

This book contains a total of eleven chapters, covering the following areas of China's economic reform. The monetary and financial reform examined China's policy on interest rate, money supply, foreign bank lending and development of the equity and commodity markets. The discussion on the reform...

This paper analyzes the interrelation between foreign direct investment and economic growth in terms of intersectoral externalities using panel data of 30 provinces in China from 1993 to 2007. A two-sector model, including both foreign-funded sector and domestic-funded sector, is derived to...

In spite of being the second largest recipient of FDI in the world, China shows limited evidence of considerable FDI benefits on growth (Fan and Hu 2007; Luo 2007; Ran et al. 2007). Motivated by Alfaro et al.'s (2003) model, this study tests whether poor financial market development might be responsible...

This paper analyzes the interrelation between foreign direct investment and economic growth in terms of intersectoral externalities using panel data of 30 provinces in China from 1993 to 2007. A two-sector model, including both foreign-funded sector and domestic-funded sector, is derived to...

The paper investigates the relationship between foreign direct investment and economic growth. A model of endogenous growth first highlights the transfer of foreign technology as a key determinant of economic growth, and suggests that economic growth may conversely influence the inflows of...

China's investment rate is one of the highest in the world, which naturally leads one to suspect that the return to capital in China must be quite low. Using the data from China's national accounts, we estimate the rate of return to capital in China. We find that the aggregate rate of return to...

Objective: The objective of the article is to investigate how foreign capital influenced the development of insurance markets in EU-15 countries. Research Design & Methods: A critical review of literature is undertaken, contents of factors which influence development of insurance markets are...

We investigate the asymmetric nonlinear link between foreign direct investment, oil prices, and CO2 emissions for the Gulf Cooperation Council nations, using foreign direct investment and oil price data. As foreign direct investment is positively associated with carbon emissions in the long run...

This paper provides theoretical and empirical insights into the puzzling simultaneous rise in foreign direct investment inflows in Africa and capital flight from the continent over the past decades. Indeed, paradoxically, even as African countries have become more attractive to foreign private...