The location choice of foreign direct investments: Empirical evidence and methodological challenges

BB Nielsen, CG Asmussen, CD Weatherall - Journal of World Business, 2017 - Elsevier
The choice of location of foreign direct investments (FDI) by multinational enterprises
(MNEs) has been the subject of intense scrutiny for decades and continues to be so. Yet, the …

The Saudi Arabian economy: Policies, achievements, and challenges

MA Ramady - 2010 - books.google.com
The Saudi Arabian economy has changed almost beyond recognition since the oil boom
days of the 1980s, and the Kingdom itself has changed too economically, socially, and …

State-owned MNCs and host country expropriation risk: The role of home state soft power and economic gunboat diplomacy

JL Duanmu - Journal of International Business Studies, 2014 - Springer
Expropriation risk has a binding effect on foreign direct investment (FDI). However, state-
owned multinational corporations may counter the monopoly power of the host state by …

Global production with export platforms

F Tintelnot - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Most international commerce is carried out by multinational firms, which use their foreign
affiliates both to serve the market of the host country and to export to other markets outside …

Agglomeration effects in foreign direct investment and the pollution haven hypothesis

UJ Wagner, CD Timmins - Environmental and Resource Economics, 2009 - Springer
Does environmental regulation impair international competitiveness of pollution-intensive
industries to the extent that they relocate to countries with less stringent regulation, turning …

Firm heterogeneity and location choice of Chinese multinational enterprises (MNEs)

JL Duanmu - Journal of world business, 2012 - Elsevier
Using data on 194 location choices in 32 countries for a decade, we investigated locational
determinants of Chinese Multinational Enterprises (MNEs). We found that State-Owned …

Theory of hot-electron quantum diffusion in semiconductors

P Kleinert - Physics reports, 2010 - Elsevier
In the linear response regime close to equilibrium, the fluctuation-dissipation theorem
relates linear transport coefficients via the well-known Green–Kubo or Einstein relation. The …

A brief overview of international migration motives and impacts, with specific reference to FDI

M Gheasi, P Nijkamp - Economies, 2017 - mdpi.com
International migration has become one of the most debated topics in many developed and
developing countries. Host countries are concerned about the socioeconomic …

Skilled migration and business networks

F Docquier, E Lodigiani - Open Economies Review, 2010 - Springer
The role of migrants' networks in promoting cross border investments has been stressed in
the literature, possibly making migration and FDI complements rather than substitutes in the …

The end of family business? The Mittelstand and German capitalism in transition, 1949–2000

H Berghoff - Business History Review, 2006 - cambridge.org
The Mittelstand sector of the German economy, which is made up of small and medium-
sized family firms, is generally not mentioned in debates about German capitalism. This …