The main aim of the article was to analyze the motives behind the FDI decisions of Chinese companies' capital engagement in Central and Eastern Europe. The article examines the applicability of existing theoretical concepts towards Chinese outward foreign direct investment (OFDI). Chinese OFDI...

Purpose: This paper focuses on the internationalization of the Greek Multinational Enterprises in Central and Eastern European Countries. Its purpose is twofold. Firstly, to describe the process through which Greece became a major investor in the region following the collapse of the central...

The Western Balkan countries, which are in the late transition process, fail to take advantage of the opportunities brought by globalization and the removal of restrictions to the free flow of capital, technology, knowledge, people and information. Despite the entry of a significant stock of...

Our paper investigates the FDI attracting potential of emerging markets by in terms of their location attributes. We use Statistical cluster analysis to study the dynamic evolution of emerging markets' clusters, based on country attributes that are relevant for the MNEs location decision. We...

This essay addresses the recent deceleration in the pace of global FDI and asks whether multinational corporations are actually in retreat. It identifies the forces that are slowing the expansion of FDI, and sketches the role that multinational corporations will play in the future.

This paper offers an introduction to the special issue on FDI and multinational corporations: http://www.economics-ejournal.org/special-areas/special-issues/fdi-and-multinational-corporations. It summarizes the contents of the five papers included, and relates them to the recent litera­ture on...

This paper studies the participation of Russian multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the flight of capital from the native country. It estimates the mid-annual size of capital flight from Russia in 2015–2020 via channels of its MNEs at 0.8% of GDP. Theoretically and methodologically, this paper...

We document a robust relation between corporate tax differentials and US international financial integration (IFI). While this is the case for traditional IFI based on cross-border positions, the positive link also emerges for its larger consolidated-by-nationality version. The gap between these...