FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT

This book is a collection of important reference works by Bruce Blonigen on foreign direct investment (FDI). The book is primarily composed of empirical analyses of foreign direct investment behavior from an industrial organization and international trade perspective. These studies both examine determinants of FDI, as well as the effects of FDI on host and parent countries. The work examines FDI from a firm-level perspective and uses unique micro-level datasets to further understand firm-level FDI decisions and their impact on local economies. The volume should be valuable to both existing and new scholars in the field of international trade and international business. Much of the work is policy-oriented and so it will also be valuable to policymakers who follow the academic literature.

Contents:

• About the Author
• Introduction
• Determinants of FDI:
  • Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (Bruce A Blonigen, Jeremy Piger)
  • FDI in Space: Spatial Autoregressive Relationships in Foreign Direct Investment (Bruce A Blonigen, Ronald B Davies, Glen R Waddell, Helen T Naughton)
  • Firm-Specific Assets and the Link Between Exchange Rates and Foreign Direct Investment (Bruce A Blonigen)
  • Cherries for Sale: The Incidence and Timing of Cross-Border M&A (Bruce A Blonigen, Lionel Fontagné, Nicholas Sly, Farid Toubal)
  • Tariff-Jumping Antidumping Duties (Bruce A Blonigen)
  • Endogenous Protection, Foreign Direct Investment and Protection-Building Trade (Bruce A Blonigen, Yuka Ohno)
  • The Differential Effects of Bilateral Tax Treaties (Bruce A Blonigen, Lindsay Oldenski, Nicholas Sly)
  • Industrial Groupings and Foreign Direct Investment (Bruce A Blonigen, Christopher J Ellis, Dietrich Fausten)
• Effects of FDI on Home and Host Countries:
  • In Search of Substitution Between Foreign Production and Exports (Bruce A Blonigen)
  • Foreign-Affiliate Activity and U.S. Skill Upgrading (Bruce A Blonigen, Matthew J Slaughter)
  • The Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Local Communities (David N Figlio, Bruce A Blonigen)
  • Please Pass the Catch-Up: The Relative Performance of Chinese and Foreign Firms in Chinese Exports (Bruce A Blonigen, Alyson C Ma)
  • Voting for Protection: Does Direct Foreign Investment Influence Legislator Behavior? (Bruce A Blonigen, David N Figlio)
  • Tariff-Jumping FDI and Domestic Firms' Profits (Bruce A Blonigen, KaSaundra Tomlin, Wesley W Wilson)
  • Measuring the Benefits of Foreign Product Variety with an Accurate Variety Set (Bruce A Blonigen, Anson Soderbery)

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in international economics, globalization and industrial organization.Foreign Direct Investment;Multinational Enterprises;Mergers and Acquisitions;Greenfield;Trade Policy;Taxation;Spillovers;Offshoring;Wage Inequality;Firm-Specific Assets;Antidumping;Tariff-jumping;Industrial Organization;Ownership-Location-Internalization Theory0Key Features:

• Provides a rich set of empirical analysis of foreign direct investment (FDI) behavior from an industrial organization, firm-level perspective as opposed to the substantial scholarship on FDI that is more focused at the country- and macroeconomics level
• Uses unique, micro-level datasets
• Contains a number of key works in the literature examining the interactions of FDI and trade policy