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Book SynopsisThe economics of international investment is an area in which many important theoretical and empirical contributions have been made over recent years. This volume draws together a series of original new essays which reflect and refine developments in the concepts, theories and tools of analysis of international investment and uses them to analyse recent issues posed by the growth and altered structure of international investment.
Featuring contributions by many of the leading figures in the field, the volume commences with discussion of the market for foreign investment since the debt crisis, the export and foreign investment decision process of the firm, the welfare implications of R&D activities by multinational enterprises in host countries and the relationship between foreign direct investment and regionalism with particular reference to the EC. Later papers focus on foreign direct investment in Eastern Europe, the influence of exchange rate regimes on international capital flows, the use of privatization schemes to reduce external debt overhang and Malaysia’s inverse saving-investment correlation.
No other book offers as extensive a coverage of important recent issues, both theoretical and empirical, in the economics of international investment. In addition to providing students, teachers and researchers with an overview of current views and theories in the area of international investment, this volume will also serve as a useful platform from which future research can be launched.
Trade Review’All the papers have good summaries or conclusion. Together, this volume does a nice job in covering many of the issues in research on direct foreign investment and multinational firms.’- Mark Jelavich,
The Journal of Economics -- ’It provides a valuable source of readings for those teaching specialist courses in international economics and for students researching aspects of international investment.’- Jerry Oakley, The Economic Journal
Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction (V.N. Balasubramanyam and D. Sapsford) 2. International Investment: A Business Perspective (D.F. Lomax) 3. Internalization as a Learning Process: A Model of Corporate Growth and Geographical Diversification (M. Casson) 4. R&D Activities of Multinational Enterprises and Host Country Welfare (H. Katrak) 5. Intrafirm Royalties in the Process of Expansion of US Multinational Enterprise (R.E. Caves and A. More) 6. The Determinants of the Composition of US Foreign Direct Investment in UK Manufacturing (C. Milner and E. Pentecost) 7. East Asian Foreign Direct Investment in the EC (V.N. Balasubramanyam and D. Greenaway) 8. Foreign Investment in Eastern Europe’s Transformation Process (J. Donges and J. Wieners) 9. Capital Flows and the Excess Burden of the Exchange Rate Regime (T.C. Mills and G.E. Wood) 10. Privatization, Debt – Equity Conversions and Capital Repatriation (P.N. Snowden) 11. Malaysia’s Inverse Saving–Investment Correlation: The Role of Public and Foreign Direct Investment (M.J. Fry)
