Foreign Direct Investment (FDI): Policies, Economic Impacts and Global Perspectives

ISBN: 9781628084047 出版年：2013 页码：314 Enzo Guillon Lucas Chauvet Nova Science

In this book, the authors present topical research in the study of the policies, economic impacts and global perspectives of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Topics discussed include Chinese and Italian investment in Africa's extractive industries; a case study in Mexico of productivity spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment; evidence from the EU at the regional level of FDI and economic growth; outward FDI to China and the parent firm's ability to create value added per worker; Foreign Direct Investment on ASEAN's income inequality revisited; global trends in R&D-intensive FDI; the impact of corruption on the timing and mode of entry by U.S. firms in China; the proliferation of Free Trade Agreements and their impact on FDI; Union structure and inward FDI; inward FDI performance and determinants of FDI regional disparity in China; trade, FDI, exchange rate, and the effect of corporate tax reduction policy; evidence from plant-level data of FDI and productivity spillovers; and regional FDI spillovers in the Swiss service/construction industry.