Foreign Direct Investment and the Multinational Enterprise - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0262026457 ISBN 13 : 9780262026451

Editeur : The MIT Press, 2008

Synopsis

Top economists examine one of the key forces in globalization from a wide range of theoretical and empirical perspectives.

The multinational firm and its main vehicle, foreign direct investment, are key forces in economic globalization. Their importance to the world economy can be seen in the fact that since 1990 foreign direct investment has grown more rapidly than the world GDP and world trade. Despite this, the causes and consequences of multinational firm activity are little understood and until recently relatively unexamined in the theoretical literature. This CESifo volume fills this gap, examining the multinational enterprise (MNE) and foreign direct investment (FDI) from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. In the theoretical chapters, leading scholars take a wide range of modern analytical approaches—from new growth and trade theories to new economic geography, industrial organization, and game theory. Taking current theoretical work on MNE and FDI as a starting point and aiming to extend the existing theoretical framework, the contributors consider such topics as investment liberalization and firm location, tax competition, and welfare consequences of FDI and outsourcing. The empirical chapters test several of the key hypotheses of recent theoretical work on MNE and FDI, examining topics that include productivity effects on Italian MNEs, the different effects of outsourcing in Austria and Poland, location decisions of MNEs in the European Union, and other topics.

Contributors
Oscar Amerighi, Bruce A. Blonigen, Steven Brakman, Davide Castellani, Ronald B. Davies, Alan V. Deardorff, Fabrice Defever, Harry Garretsen, Anders N. Hoffman, Andzelika Lorentowicz, James R. Markusen, Charles van Marrewijk, Dalia Marin, James R. Marukusen, Alireza Naghavi, Helen T. Naughton, Giorgio Barba Navaretti, J. Peter Neary, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Alexander Raubold, Glen R. Waddell

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Steven Brakman is Professor of International Economics at the University of Groningen.

Harry Garretsen is Professor of International Economics and Business at the University of Groningen.

J. Peter Neary is Professor of Political Economy at University College Dublin.

James R. Markusen is the Stanford Calderwood Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado and an NBER Research Associate.

Alan V. Deardorff is Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Dalia Marin is Professor of Economics at the University of Munich.

Steven Brakman is Professor of International Economics at the University of Groningen.

Harry Garretsen is Professor of International Economics and Business at the University of Groningen.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262026457
• ISBN 13: 9780262026451
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Éditeur: Brakman Steven, Garretsen Harry
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible