In the process of creating the growth of countries competitiveness, a special role is appointed to foreign direct investment as an important element of the globalization of the economies. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between foreign direct investment and...

In the last fifteen years foreign banks have expanded their presence significantly in almost all developing economies. The transition countries are among those economies that have experienced one of the highest levels of banking internationalization in the world. The foreign controlled banking...

In this study we documents what determines the FDI and entry modes of emerging multinational enterprises from Poland across different sectors in the years 2003-2010. Using an original database on international acquisitions and greenfield foreign investments of Polish firms we find that...

We investigate the effects of regional and industrywide foreign presence and foreign direct investment (FDI) on export volumes of Ukrainian manufacturing firms using unpublished panel data from 19962000. Foreign presence through FDI may have negative competition effects on domestic firms'...

All countries are eager to attract as much foreign investments as possible. At the same time FDI may have not only positive, but also negative economic effects for receiving countries. Positive effects are associated with technology transfer, efficient allocation of resources, and training of...

In this paper we investigate the effects of region and industrywide spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) on the volumes of export of Ukrainian manufacturing firms, using (name of the data set) panel data from 1996-2000. Economic theory suggests that FDI has direct and indirect effects...