Multinational forms in the world economy./
Giorgio Barba Navaretti
- United Kingdom: Princeton university press, 2004.
- xi,325p.: ill and diagrams; 24 cm
Includes references and index.
Contents:Facts aand issue -- The multibational enterprice:an overview of theory and emprircal findings -- Horizontal foreign direct investment:product market access -- Vertical foreign direct investment: input cost and factor prices -- Multinationals:the firm and the market -- Determinants of FDL:the evidence -- Host country effects:conceptual framework and the evidence -- FDI and the host economy; A case study of ireland -- Home country effects of foreign direct investment -- Policy implication and effects -- Cpnclusions -- Appendix A a statistical definitions and databases on foreign direct investment and activities of multinationals