Multinational Firms in the World Economy /

Multinational Firms in the World Economy /

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Depending on one's point of view, multinational enterprises are either the heroes or the villains of the globalized economy. Governments compete fiercely for foreign direct investment by such companies, but complain when firms go global and move their activities elsewhere. Multinationals are se...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Barba Navaretti, Giorgio, 1960- (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Venables, Anthony (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
International business enterprises
International trade
Afumex
MERCOSUR
capital taxation
conditional measures
demand
domestic activities
economic growth
economies of scale
financial data
fragmentation
general equilibrium
globalization
herding
heterogeneity
indigenous industry
iso-cost lines
knowledge capital
labour demand
linkages
outsourcing
pecuniary externality
sector subsidy
spillovers
technology sourcing
unconditional measures
wages
Dictionaries
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • 1 Facts and Issues
  • 2 The Multinational Enterprise: an Overview of Theory and Empirical Findings
  • 3 Horizontal Foreign Direct Investment: Product Market Access
  • 4 Vertical Foreign Direct Investment: Input Costs and Factor Prices
  • 5 Multinationals: the Firm and the Market
  • 6 Determinants of FDI: the Evidence
  • 7 Host Country Effects: Conceptual Framework and the Evidence
  • 8 FDI and the Host Economy: a Case Study of Ireland
  • 9 Home Country Effects of Foreign Direct Investment
  • 10 Policy Implications and Effects
  • 11 Conclusions
  • Appendix A. Statistical Definitions and Databases on Foreign Direct Investment and the Activities of Multinationals
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index

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