Trading spaces : foreign direct investment regulation, 1970-2000 / Sonal S. Pandya.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pandya, Sonal S.

Contributor:

John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

Cambridge University Press.

Series:

Political economy of institutions and decisions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Investments, Foreign.

Investments, Foreign--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

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 Production2.2 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 Inflows3.4 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 Regulation6.1 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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on Jan. 21, 2014).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Pandya, Sonal S. Trading Spaces : Foreign Direct Investment Regulation, 1970-2000

ISBN:

9781107598492

1107598494

Publisher Number:

99980030967

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.