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The United States Policy Toward Inward Foreign Direct Investment, Harvey E. Bale, Jr.
The United States Policy Toward Inward Foreign Direct Investment, Harvey E. Bale, Jr.
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
This paper presents the perspective of the author, a trade and investment policy official, on the most significant aspects of the United States policy toward foreign direct investment. The summary in this section is presented to give the author's policy viewpoint in order to assist the reader in evaluating the paper's arguments... United States policy, at both the federal and local levels, reflects a strong positive attitude concerning the general benefits of inward foreign direct investment. While foreign ownership of United States assets is restricted in certain sectors, the general United States approach is one of "national treatment"--i.e., foreign investors …
Determinants Of Foreign Plant Start-Ups In The United States: Lessons For Policymakers In The Southeast, Michael I. Luger, Sudhir Shetty
Determinants Of Foreign Plant Start-Ups In The United States: Lessons For Policymakers In The Southeast, Michael I. Luger, Sudhir Shetty
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
This article examines the elasticity of DFI in relation to these promotional activities. It also analyzes the effect that agglomeration economies, urbanization economies, and labor market conditions have on DFI. Its specific focus is upon the effect that those four determinants had on new plant start-ups in three separate industries: drug manufacturing, industrial machinery, and motor vehicle production over the 1979-1983 period. (Those industries have been given standard industrial classification (SIC) numbers of 283, 355 + 356, and 371, respectively, by the U.S. Department of Commerce.) The industries are considered separately in order to test the hypothesis that the importance …