Loading…

Foreign direct investment : analysis of aggregate flows /

The 1990s saw global flows of foreign direct investment increase some sevenfold, spurring economists to explore FDI from a micro- or trade-based perspective. Foreign Direct Investment is one of the first books to analyze the macroeconomics of FDI, treating FDI as a unique form of international capit...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Razin, Assaf, Sadka, Efraim (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Overview
  • pt. I. Foreign direct investors and liquidity shocks
  • 2. Foreign direct investment and foreign portfolio investment : theory
  • 3. Foreign direct investment and foreign portfolio investment : evidence
  • pt. II. Foreign direct investment with threshold barriers : theory
  • 4. Foreign versus domestic direct investment : cream-skimming
  • 5. FDI flows with endogenous domestic wages : heterogeneous firms
  • 6. Country-specific aggregate shocks : representative firm
  • pt. III. Foreign direct investment with threshold barriers : empirics
  • 7. Overview of the econometric equations
  • 8. Application to a baseline sample : OLS, Tobit, and the Heckman selection models
  • 9. Productivity shocks
  • 10. Source and host corporate tax rates
  • pt. IV. Policy in a globalized economy
  • 11. Tax competition and coordination.