The internationalisation of production in Europe: Causes and effects of foreign direct investment and non-equity forms of international production.

The contributions to this volume of the EIB Papers - drawing on presentations made at the 2004 EIB Conference on Economics and Finance - address causes and effects of the internationalisation of production (Volume 9, Number 1) and present EU country case studies (Volume 9, Number 2). The titles of the papers are: The internationalisation of production: moving plants, products, and people (Armin Riess & Kristian Uppenberg); Long-term trends in international production (Zbigniew Zimny); Determinants and growth effects of foreign direct investment (Kristian Uppenberg & Armin Riess); The employment effects of foreign direct investment (Jozef Konings); Regional integration, FDI, and regional development (Ari Kokko & Patrik Gustavsson); Export-platform FDI: the Irish experience (Frank Barry); Where do foreign firms locate in France and why? (Thierry Mayer); FDI in Hungary: the first mover's advantage and disadvantage (Magdolna Sass); FDI in small accession countries: the Baltic states (G´bor Hunya)

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