Format:
1 online resource (191 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781107040342
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9781107703889
Series Statement:
Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions Series
Content:
This book examines why countries dismantled foreign direct investment (FDI) restrictions over the period 1970-2000. It features statistical analyses of the most comprehensive dataset of industry-level FDI regulations to date. It also highlights the economic and political foundations of global economic integration and the growing economic conflicts between advanced economics and large emerging markets
Note:
Cover -- Trading Spaces -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Politicization of FDI Inflows: A Brief History -- 1.2 FDI Liberalization: Identifying Empirical Puzzles -- 1.3 The Political Economy of FDI Regulation: Theoretical Claims and Empirical Tests -- 1.4 New Perspectives on the Political Economy of FDI -- 1.5 Roadmap -- 2 FDI -- 2.1 Why Does FDI Exist? -- 2.1.1 FDI Protects Firm-Specific Assets -- 2.1.2 What Firms Become Multinational Corporations? -- 2.1.3 Export-Oriented versus Market-Oriented FDI: The Organization of Multinational Production -- 2.2 The Distributive Effects of FDI Inflows: Implications of the Specific Factors Model -- 2.2.1 Accounting for Alternate Mechanisms -- 2.3 FDI Preferences: Increased Labor Demand and Returns to Skills -- 2.4 Sources of Cross-National Variation: Political Regime Type -- 2.5 Sources of Cross-Industry Variation: Organization of Production -- 2.6 Conclusion -- 3 FDI Regulation Weakens Control over Assets -- 3.1 Instruments of FDI Regulation -- 3.2 Why Local Capital Owners Profit from Restrictions on Foreign Ownership -- 3.3 Ownership Regulations Reduce FDI Inflows -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 4 Individual Preferences for FDI Inflows -- 4.1 Modeling Preferences: Comparing Economic and Noneconomic Factors -- 4.2 Explaining FDI Preferences: Empirical Tests -- 4.3 Conclusion -- 5 Democratization and Cross-National FDI Liberalization -- 5.1 Democratization and Foreign Ownership Liberalization: A Baseline Model -- 5.2 Robustness to Alternate Explanations for FDI Liberalization -- 5.3 Alternate Measures and Model Specifications -- 5.4 Robustness Tests -- 5.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Appendix -- 6 The Organization of Multinational Production and Cross-Industry Variation in FDI Regulation
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6.1 Modeling the Frequency of Industry-Level Ownership Restrictions -- 6.2 Industry-Level Regulation - Robustness Tests -- 6.3 Conclusion -- 7 The Politics of FDI in the Twenty-First Century -- 7.1 Advancing FDI Research -- 7.2 FDI and the Twenty-First-Century-Global Economy -- Appendix Existing and New Measures of FDI Regulation -- Bibliography -- Index -- Series
Additional Edition:
Print version Pandya, Sonal S. Trading Spaces New York : Cambridge University Press,c2013 ISBN 9781107040342
Language:
English
Keywords:
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