Locational Tournaments in the Context of the EU Competitive Environment: A New Institutional Economics Approach to Foreign Direct Investment Policy Competition between Governments in Europe - Couverture souple

Dreyhaupt, Stephan

 
9783835002807: Locational Tournaments in the Context of the EU Competitive Environment: A New Institutional Economics Approach to Foreign Direct Investment Policy Competition between Governments in Europe
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3835002805 ISBN 13 : 9783835002807
Editeur : Deutscher Universitätsverlag, 2006

Synopsis

As part of the research undertaken by the Department of Economics at the European Business School, this book explores the role that institutions play in the process of economic competition between jurisdictions for mobile investment. These "locational tournaments" are perpetuated not simply by classical factor endowments of their respective locations, but also by government interventions that impact both market imperfections and FDI flows. The resulting rivalry between competing institutional arrangements, which has been termed institutional competition, lies at the very heart of the author's analysis. The context for his research is provided by the global forces of trade and foreign direct investment that have expanded the scope for international production due to widespread liberalization of trade and capital flows, continuing regional integration, rapid technological innovations, and the resulting decrease in cross-border transaction costs. Foreign direct investment has been markedly affected by these developments. Countries depend now more heavily on foreign direct investment as a major portion of international capital flows, giving even smaller countries a greater potential and determination to compete for FDI. As a result, not only have attitudes towards FDI dramatically changed over the past decade, but so have the scope and intensity of the "'beauty contests" associated with it.

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À propos de l?auteur

Dr. Stephan J. Dreyhaupt promovierte bei Prof. Dr. Rolf Caspers am Lehrstuhl für Weltwirtschaft und Internationales Management der European Business School, Schloß Reichartshausen in Oestrich-Winkel. Er ist als Head, Investment Information Services für MIGA, The World Bank Group, tätig.

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Éditeur
Deutscher Universitätsverlag
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3835002805
ISBN 13 
9783835002807
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
328
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