scholarly journals The Role of Foreign Direct Investment and Imports of Capital Goods in the North-South Diffusion of Technology

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 545-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan S. Blyde
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Capital Goods ◽  
Diffusion Of Technology ◽  
The North

scholarly journals Foreign Direct Investment In Transition Economies: An Institutional Approach

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Agim Kukeli
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Transition Economies ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Physical Capital ◽  
Seemingly Unrelated Regression ◽  
Institutional Setting ◽  
Diffusion Of Technology ◽  
Institutional Approach ◽  
Unrelated Regression

Foreign direct investment (FDI thereafter) is very important for economic growth in transition economies. They have major impact in economic development as a source of physical capital, diffusion of technology, improvements in management and marketing techniques, and enhancing institutional setting of these economies toward market oriented. In this paper, an institutional approach to FDI inflow is investigated to identify relevant factors that have shaped and influenced transition economies. The role of institutions in the inflow of FDI in transition economies is estimated empirically by using Seemingly Unrelated Regression Estimation (SURE) technique.

Economic Actors' Lobbying Influence on the Prospects for War and Peace

2013 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 863-888 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen G. Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Economic Globalization ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Special Interests ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Government

AbstractPolitical scientists and economists have long been interested in the role of special interests in the policymaking process. In the past few years, a series of important new books have argued forcefully that the lobbying activities of economic actors have an important influence on the prospects for war and peace. All of these analyses claim that whether economic actors enhance or decrease the likelihood of conflict ultimately depends on the domestic political balance between economic actors who have a strong vested interest in pushing for peace versus those that do not. I advance two contrary arguments. At least among the advanced states, I posit there are no longer any economic actors who will be favorable toward war and who will lobby the government with this preference. All of the identified mechanisms that previously contributed to such lobbying in these states have been swept away with the end of colonialism and the rise of economic globalization. In particular, I show that the current structure of the global economy now makes it feasible for foreign direct investment to serve as an effective substitute for conquest in a way that was not possible in previous eras. My second argument concerns those economic actors in advanced states with a preference for peace. I posit that it has become unnecessary for them to directly lobby the government to avoid war on economic grounds because economic globalization—the accumulation of decisions by economic actors throughout the globe—now has sufficiently clear economic incentives for leaders.

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