between exports and FDI using service-level data for firms in Belgium selling services abroad. Three different types of …The decision to serve foreign markets through exports or foreign direct investment (FDI) has been studied within … for the specific nature of services that are traded across borders. We show how services can be characterized by a bundle …

Differences in regulations, technical standards and national medical cultures across EU member states created a highly … production within the EU. Using discrete-choice models, we study the determinants of multinationals’ location choices in terms of … ; discrete choice models ; European integration ; FDI …

technique – to circumvent time invariability and endogeneity – for intra Europe FDI and, separately, for FDI to the EU members … results suggest that EU commercial integration and FDI reinforce each other, thus being complements rather than substitutes in … Europe. This effect is apparent for the intra-EU FDI and also for investment coming from countries outside the EU. Cost …

the EU and the CEECs on FDI flows in terms of three key issues. First, we provide systematic estimates of the expected … to FDI. In contrast, the available theory on FDI does not yet provide empirically testable propositions on the effects of … principal features of FDI. This paper uses a "gravity model" approach to assess the impact of the deepening integration between …

, multinational activity in Eastern Europe is mostly unilaterally whereas, for industrialized countries, bilateral FDI linkages …

This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern …-tariff barriers. We find that, for the particular case of the EU, it is not possible to strictly discriminate between horizontal or … vertical FDI. The market-seeking strategy appears to be more important than factor-proportion related motivations; however, the …

The Eastern enlargement of the European Union (EU) is likely to give a further boost to trade and capital flows, yet … determinants of international asset holdings and trade flows. We find in most regressions that EU membership has a significant … effect. Based on additional simulations of the expected flows to ten transition economies, we conclude that for the EU …