Foreign Direct Investment: Location Attractiveness For Retailing Firms In The European Union

Topics:
Foreign Direct Investment
Tags:
Currency & Foreign Exchange,
Elsevier,
Finance,
Foreign Direct Investment,
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI),
Investment
Source:
Elsevier

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Overview: Foreign direct investment and company's location decisions in Europe have attracted much attention from competitors, consumers, academics and governments. Empirical evidence has been provided in the literature with particular attention given to manufacturing investments. The main thrust in the paper of this "Race for FDI" has been the relationship between competition and trade policy, regional development, employment generation and industrial regeneration (Oxelheim 1993). From an academic perspective it appears worthwhile to investigate in how far the increase in the importance of the service sector is also reflected in the attention it is given with respect to attracting service-FDI (Foreign Direct Investment).

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Format: PDF | Size: 1,229KB | Date: Jan 2004 | Pages: 12


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