Foreign investment inflow increased 65.4% in Q1 2013. Accumulated foreign investments in Russia’s economy increased 0.7% against the beginning of the year. Withdrawn capital saw a 3-fold contraction against January– March 2012, its volume accounting for 40.2% of foreign investment inflow...

In January–September 2013, as compared to the respective period of the previous year foreign investments into Russian economy rose by 15.7% which is justified by growth in direct investments and other investments carried out on a recurrent basis. The shares of the above investments in the...

In the first six months, growth in foreign investments in the Russian economy was registered. The highest growth rates were observed with the direct investments segment whose unit weight in the aggregate indices rose to 12.3%. The volume of the withdrawn capital amounted to 63.2% of the volume...

In this paper, we study the impacts of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) between the EU countries and China on EU home investments. We consider BITs as "treatments" that provide further access to global value chains (GVCs). We identify the causal impacts of the BITs on the relationship...

In this paper, we study the impacts of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) between the EU countries and China on EU home investments. We consider BITs as "treatments" that provide further access to global value chains (GVCs). We identify the causal impacts of the BITs on the relationship...

Research on multinational firms’ activity has been conducted widely since late 1980s. The literature is differentiated into three types: horizontal FDI, vertical FDI, and three-country FDI, represented by export platform FDI. There are other methods of differentiation of the literature by...

To prepare an answer to the question of how a developing country can attract FDI, this paper explored the factors and policies that may help bring FDI into a developing country by utilizing an extended version of the knowledge-capital model. With a special focus on the effects of FTAs/EPAs...

The paper aims to explain the choice of organizational forms by multinational companies (MNCs) when decentralizing abroad their R&D activities. We identify five main organizational forms: wholly owned green-field subsidiary, wholly owned acquired subsidiary, joint venture, cross-licensing...

This paper investigates theoretically and empirically firms' productivity ranking among traditional horizontal foreign direct investment (HFDI), pure platform FDI (PFDI), and complex platform FDI (CFDI). Using data on Japanese outward FDI, we define firms conducting HFDI or PFDI as those...

This paper develops a micro-simulation framework for multinational entry and sales activities across countries. The model is based on Eaton, Kortum, and Kramarz's (2010) quantitative trade model adapted towards multinational production. Using micro data on Japanese manufacturing firms, we first...