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Risk and Foreign Direct Investment

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  1. Colin White
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  2. Miao Fan
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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Colin White, Miao Fan
      Pages 1-3

  3. Risk and Home Country Bias

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. A Review of Theory Concerning Risk and the Foreign Investment Decision

      • Colin White, Miao Fan
      Pages 7-22

    3. Risk and Risk-generating Events

      • Colin White, Miao Fan
      Pages 23-40

    4. Home Country Bias in Foreign Direct Investment

      • Colin White, Miao Fan
      Pages 41-59

  4. Different Perspectives on Investment Appraisal

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-62
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    2. The Investment Process and Decision Making: the Financial Perspective

      • Colin White, Miao Fan
      Pages 63-83

    3. The Investment Process and Decision Making: the Strategic Perspective

      • Colin White, Miao Fan
      Pages 84-103

    4. The Investment Process and Decision Making: the Organisational Perspective

      • Colin White, Miao Fan
      Pages 104-124

  5. The Different Types of Risk

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-126
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    2. The Context of Risk

      • Colin White, Miao Fan
      Pages 127-145

    3. Country Risk

      • Colin White, Miao Fan
      Pages 146-167

    4. Enterprise and Project Risk

      • Colin White, Miao Fan
      Pages 168-186

  6. Responses to Risk and the Determinants of FDI

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
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    2. Responses to Risk

      • Colin White, Miao Fan
      Pages 189-208

    3. The Behaviour of FDI

      • Colin White, Miao Fan
      Pages 209-235

    4. Conclusion

      • Colin White, Miao Fan
      Pages 236-239

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 240-265
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About this book

Incorporating an accurate measure of risk is important to the appraisal of an international investment. This book examines and recommends how decisions on international investment projects are made. Critiquing and integrating existing theory, it shows how risk can be incorporated into the present value formula produce a clear decision rule.

About the authors

COLIN WHITE is Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Management, La Trobe University, Australia. Professor White began his career with an interest in planning, moving on to research the comparative performance of national economies and later the economic performance of the enterprise. Formerly Head of Departments of Economic History, Economics and the Graduate School of Management (inaugural), his most recent book is Strategic Management.

MIAO FAN has an international background having studied and worked in China, holding an MBA from Britain and a PhD from Australia for her thesis on Country Risk and its Impact on the FDI Decision-making Process from an Australian Perspective. She now works in the risk management team at the National Australia Bank.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Risk and Foreign Direct Investment

  • Authors: Colin White, Miao Fan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230624832

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-4564-8Published: 25 January 2006

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-52310-8Published: 01 January 2006

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-62483-2Published: 25 January 2006

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 265

  • Topics: Risk Management, International Business, International Economics

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