Analyzing the experience of Mexico under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 'Lessons from NAFTA' aims to provide guidance to Latin American and Caribbean countries considering free trade agreements with the United States. The authors conclude that the treaty raised external trade...

The aim of this article is to review the tectonic changes in the structure of economic linkages in the Eurasian continent. Within the last two decades, the end of the autarky of China and the COMECON bloc led to a dramatic opening to the global economy and to cooperation within the Eurasian...

Most literature focuses on how foreign investment and the market returns are related. Instead, this study attempts to identify the origin of abnormal behavior by foreign investors, as well as the relationship among the error in covered interest parity (ECIP), foreign investment (INV), and stock...

In the context of public discussion about the advantages and disadvantages of foreign investment, this article looks at the macroeconomic effects of reducing capital inflows into Australia.

Albania has opportunities to attract foreign direct investments in several sectors of economies: agriculture, manufacture economy, tourism etc. Albania has a great potential, but the domestic capital is very low and it is not enable to utilize these opportunities. The aim of our paper is to...

This paper deals with the issue of investments in the Russian real sector of the economy. Slowdown in the economic activity has resulted in a new situation in the investment sector. Through 2008 a gradual downward trend in the investment growth was observed which coupled with the global...

This article looks back at the relationship between Australia and China, particularly following the normalisation of relations in 1972.

Two acquisition bids by foreign state-owned enterprises (SOEs) for Canadian resource companies have raised an array of concerns about their potential impact, ranging from worries about national security and governance standards to reciprocal access to markets. While Ottawa’s current screening...

This paper examines the role of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in promoting economic growth via export promotion by using quarterly data relating to the period 1991-I to 2000-IV. The study uses the Johansen co-Integration test, and the results demonstrate that there is a long-run relationship...

FDI issue was and is heavily debated, therefore, in this area there are concerns both at nationally and internationally level. With the hypothesis that large flows of foreign direct investment determines a number of benefits for the economy of recipient country, in recent years, global FDI flows...