Foreign Direct Investment and the Multinational Enterprise (CESifo Seminar Series)
Contributors: Steven Brakman (Editor); Harry Garretsen (Editor)
Publisher: The MIT Press; MIT Press
Published: May 31, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780262026451
Subjects: International economics; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; International - Economics; Investments & Securities - General; Business & Economics / Economics / International
Description: "The multinational firm and its main vehicle, foreign direct investment, are key forces in economic globalization. Their importance to the world economy can be seen in the fact that since 1990 foreign direct investment has grown more rapidly than the world GDP and world trade. Despite this, the causes and consequences of multinational firm activity are little understood and until recently relatively unexamined in the theoretical literature. This CESifo volume fills this gap, examining the multinational enterprise (MNE) and foreign direct investment (FDI) from both theoretical and empirical perspectives."--BOOK JACKET.