Foreign direct investment in Europe : a changing landscape / edited by Klaus Liebscher ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Liebscher, Klaus.

Oesterreichische Nationalbank.

Conference Name:

Conference on European Economic Integration (2006 : Vienna, Austria)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Investments, Foreign--Europe.

Investments, Foreign.

International business enterprises--Europe.

International business enterprises.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : E. Elgar, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Provides academic and professional insights into the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on home and host countries. This book highlights global trends and patterns, and explores related policy challenges all with a focus on the countries in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Preface; Policy challenges of FDI; The changing landscape of FDI in Europe; FDI: a driver for and a result of private sector development; The contribution of taxation to European competitiveness, growth and employment; Who bears the risks of FDI financing? Selected views of the EIB; Finance in transition: banks at the vanguard of foreign direct investors; Economic and monetary challenges of euro area enlargement; A special academic perspective on FDI; Measuring the impacts of FDI in Central and Eastern Europe; PART I Home and host country effects of FDI

1. The role of FDI in transition2. Foreign direct investment spillovers in emerging market economies; 3. The role of FDI in Eastern Europe and New Independent States: new channels for the spillover effect; 4. Blessing or curse? An industry-level analysis of FDI effects on productivity and wages in CEECs; 5. How do FDI inflows affect the productivity of domestic firms? The role of horizontal and vertical spillovers, absorptive capacity and competition; 6. Home country spillovers of FDI: some results and discussion of estimation issues

7. Effects of FDI on industry structure: a host country perspectivePART II Where is FDI going? Global trends and patterns; 8. Why FDI? Re-inventing economic geography in times of globalization; 9. Recent FDI trends: implications for investment policy; 10. Trends in FDI: the Austrian perspective; 11. Is China's FDI coming at the expense of other countries?; 12. FDI in services: recent developments and prospects in Europe; 13. Outward FDI from new European Union member states; PART III How to attract sustainable investment: theory and practice

14. The determinants of FDI in Central, Eastern and South- Eastern Europe: lessons from the past and prospects for the future15. How to make FDI in Central and Eastern European countries sustainable; 16. Does FDI help development? The good, the bad, the surprising and the mistaken. Policy issues for developed countries, developing countries and multilateral lending institutions; 17. The most FDI-intensive economy in Europe: analysis of the Irish experience and current policy issues; 18. Attracting sustainable FDI and building a knowledge-based economy: the case of CzechInvest; Index

Notes:

Based on the Oesterreichische Nationalbank's Conference on European Economic Integration, 20 to 21 November 2006 in Vienna.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-22068-7

9786613220684

1-84720-879-7

OCLC:

476119101