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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781829003321

Titolo

Foreign direct investment and the multinational enterprise / / edited by Steven Brakman and Harry Garretsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, 2008

ISBN

1-282-09948-5

9786612099489

0-262-26912-0

1-4356-4075-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Collana

CESifo seminar series

Altri autori (Persone)

BrakmanSteven

GarretsenHarry

Disciplina

332.67/214

Soggetti

Investments, Foreign

International business enterprises

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Series Foreword; 1 Foreign Direct Investment and the Multinational Enterprise: An Introduction; I Theory; 2 Trade Costs and Foreign Direct Investment; 3 Investment Liberalization and the Geography of Firm Location; 4 Outsourcing, Contracts, and Innovation Networks; 5 Agglomeration and Government Spending; 6 Transfer Pricing and Enforcement Policy in Oligopolistic Markets; 7 Gains from Trade and Fragmentation; II Empirics; 8 Spacey Parents: Spatial Autoregressive Patterns in Inbound FDI; 9 Do Italian Firms Improve Their Performance at Home by Investing Abroad?

10 Is Human Capital Losing from Outsourcing? Evidence for Austria and Poland 11 Is It Strategic to Attract the Service Activities of Multinational Firms? Some Empirical Evidence; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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