multinationals can shift their profits explain the absence of FDI agreements? In this paper I develop a model in which governments … demonstrate that the possibility for multinationals to repatriate their profits is a determinant of FDI restrictions. An agreement …Tariffs have almost completely disappeared but various restrictions on foreign entry remain for multinationals. Many …

Japanese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the European Union and its performance were analysed in this work. Three … different FDI or entry modes used by Japanese companies to enter the European market were compared, and the presence of a …

internal debt, a number of developing countries do not. In this paper, we analyze the effect on FDI and host country welfare of … thin capitalization rules when multinationals can also shift income via transfer prices. We show that while permissive thin … capitalization limits may be needed in developing countries to attract FDI, the amount of debt financing allowed by the permissive …