chapter 1 An introduction to the financial system in theory and in practice -- chapter 2 Finance, poverty, development and growth -- chapter 3 Financial repression, liberalisation and growth -- chapter 4 The domestic financial system: an overview -- chapter 5 Reforming the domestic financial...

1. Introduction and overview -- 2. International business environment : culture -- 3. Economic and other related environmental variables -- 4. The political and legal environment -- 5. International trade and foreign direct investments -- 6. Entry strategies -- 7. Functional integration -- 8....

Observed international investment positions and cross-country heterogeneity in rates of return to capital are hard to reconcile with frictionless capital markets. In this paper, we develop a theory of international capital allocation: a multi-country dynamic spatial general equilibrium model in...