Europe is dependent on Russia for its energy supply and finds itself at odds with designing a policy that addresses its rising number of concerns over Russia while not putting its energy imports at risk. Russia's new assertiveness, in energy and as well as in other external relations, has...

The BRIICS - Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa - are the largest developing countries in their respective regions. A snapshot of their trade policies shows they have already liberalised trade and foreign direct investment extensively, and thereby plugged themselves into...

Die wichtigsten Entwicklungen und Aspekte weltweit beobachteter ausländischer Direktinvestitionen werden jährlich im Rahmen des von der Welthandelskonferenz (UNCTAD) herausgegebenen World Investment Reports dargestellt und analysiert. Der aktuelle World Investment Report (WIR) widmet sich...

Die staatlichen Eingriffe an den chinesischen Aktienmärkten im Sommer 2015 machten deutlich, dass marktwirtschaftliche Erklärungsmuster zum Verständnis der chinesischen Wirtschaft nicht ausreichen. Um zu begreifen, welche Motive und Strategien hinter den chinesischen Investments in...

This paper tests the endogenous relationship between FDI growth and economic growth using a panel dataset for 23 OECD countries for the period 1975-2004. In particular we estimate a two-equation simultaneous equation system with the generalized methods of moments (GMM) that treats economic...

The amount of FDI is increasing than any other international transactions during the last two decades. While countries remove barriers and implement policies to attract FDI inflows, the volume of foreign trade and investment increased .The objective of this paper is to enlighten the impact of EU...