New foreign investment policy

Foreign Direct Investment and Competition Policy

Background A synergy exists between investment liberalisation and the effective application of competition policy. An effective competition policy does not only remove obstacles to entry, but can also facilitate foreign investment flows by providing a predictable legal and regulatory environment that reduces the scope of arbitrary decision-making. Regulation of the business practices of investo...

origins of armenia’s foreign policy and its foreign policy towards iran

foreign policy takes root from complicated matters. however, this issue may be more truth about armenia. although the new government of armenia is less than 20 years, people of this territory are the first ones who officially accepted christianity. in very past times, these people were a part of great emperors like iran, rome, and byzantium.armenia is regarded as a nation with a privileged hist...

Option Value, Policy Uncertainty, and the Foreign Direct Investment Decision

In this paper we analyse the impact of policy uncertainty on foreign direct investment strategies. The paper follows the real options approach, which allows to investigate the value to a firm of waiting to invest and/or disinvest, when payoffs are stochastic due to political uncertainty and investments are partially reversible. Across the board we find that political uncertainty can be very det...

Reflections on Irish Industrial Policy towards Foreign Direct Investment

Irish policy towards foreign direct investment has evolved since the 1950s as a strategy driven primarily by the use of fiscal incentives to enhance the profitability of locating in Ireland, with grants as required to achieve a particular bargaining advantage in competing against alternative international locations. Our empirical analysis of European firms in Ireland suggests that the investmen...

OECD GLOBAL FORUM ON INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT New Horizons and Policy Challenges for Foreign Direct