The purpose of this project is to describe and explain the foreign investment decision process in the uncertain and turbulent environment of transition economy. By getting an in-depth understanding of how decision-making works in the environment of transition economy, the study intends to contribute to the development of business administration theory in the area of foreign investment decision-...

We construct the first general equilibrium model of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the banking sector to compare the welfare consequences of two types of liberalization. We find that liberalizing by lifting restrictions on inflows of foreign loans is more likely to reduce the average interest rate spread (markup) than liberalizing by allowing FDI in the banking sector. Using heterogeneous, ...

Virtually all governments are keen to attract foreign direct investment (FDI). It can generate new jobs, bring in new technologies and, more generally, promote growth and employment. The resulting net increase in domestic income is shared with government through taxation of wages and profits of foreign-owned companies, and possibly other taxes on business (e.g. property tax). FDI may also posit...

During the last decades, the relation between FDI and economic growth has been extensively discussed in the economic literature. Theories and existing literature provide conflicting results concerning this relationship. On one hand, some scholars argue that foreign direct investment could stimulate technological change through the adoption of foreign technology and know-how and technological sp...

Using a three-sector general equilibrium model with non-traded goods, we investigate the impact of foreign direct investment on the real wages of skilled and unskilled workers. We show that foreign direct investment increases the real wages of skilled and unskilled workers, but widens the gap between the two under plausible conditions. JEL: F10, F11, F21

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a College of Business Administration, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325, USA b Business School and Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland c Business School and Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland, and Glasgow School for Business, Glasgow Caledonian University Cowcaddens Road Glasgow G...