The Southern Common Market (mercosur), widely recognized as one of the most advanced regional integration schemes worldwide, is increasingly attractive to multinational enterprises and also very active in outward investments, despite persistent innovation and competitiveness gaps. In this paper we analyse internationalization and technology trends in mercosur in relation to trade, the activitie...

Regional economic integration has a fairly long history in virtually all parts of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). A number of leaders called for the integration of Africa already soon after independence, but it was only in the 1970s and 1980s that concrete steps were taken to re-launch or establish economic integration institutions in all sub-regions. The first generation regional integration schemes...

The interest of Foreign Direct Investors in Latin American countries is growing rapidly; in the period of 1992-2006 the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has tripled, from US$27,500 to US$72,440 millions. Investors have the challenge of deciding which country is better for their investments. The problem of selecting a country to invest in is a common topic in the current economic environment. In ...

In this empirical paper I address the e ects of international mergers and acquisitions (M&A) on the acquired rms. International direct investments in the home country are usually welcomed and considered to be bene cial for growth, employment, productivity and technological progress. This is mostly unquestioned for green eld investments, i.e. the case when a foreign multinational rm sets up a ne...

Since the late 1980s, the Chinese government has gradually eased restrictions to internal migration. This easing, along with rapid growth of the Chinese economy, substantial increases in foreign and domestic investments, and policies encouraging development in the Western provinces, have greatly stimulated internal migration. Earlier studies have established that since the 1980s, migration patt...