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You Don’T Have To Be Big To Be A Multinational, Karl P. Sauvant Aug 2011

You Don’T Have To Be Big To Be A Multinational, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant, “You Don’t Have to be Big to be a Multinational,” letter to the editor, Financial Times, 25 August 2011.


Learning From Experience: An Interview With Three Experts, Karl P. Sauvant May 2011

Learning From Experience: An Interview With Three Experts, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

Interview, under the title “Learning from Experience: An Interview with Three Experts,” Political Risk Insurance Newsletter, vol. VII, issue 1, May 2011, pp. 1, 4-8.


The Gravity Of R&D Fdis, Antonello Zanfei, Davide Castellani, Alfredo Jimenez Palmero Mar 2011

The Gravity Of R&D Fdis, Antonello Zanfei, Davide Castellani, Alfredo Jimenez Palmero

Antonello Zanfei

The gravity model predicts that international trade and FDI should fade with geographic distance. The negative effect of distance is justified by the existence of transport costs which hamper the international exchange of final and intermediate goods, and by higher uncertainty about local markets. We submit that distance plays a remarkably different role in the case of R&D FDIs since they mainly involve the international transfer, absorption and use of knowledge. Using data on bilateral investment projects in R&D, manufacturing and other business activities between 58 countries, we find that geographic distance does not hinder R&D FDIs as much as …


China: Inward And Outward Foreign Direct Investment, Karl P. Sauvant Mar 2011

China: Inward And Outward Foreign Direct Investment, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant, “Preface,” in Hugh Deng, Hang Wu, Gloria Yuan, and Jingfeng Zhao, eds., Transnational Corporations in China: Research and Development (Ottawa: Ottawa Learning Academy, The School of Economics and Management and Northwest University (China), 2010). The text was reprinted (slightly adapted), under the title “China: Inward and Outward Foreign Direct Investment,” in Transnational Corporations Review, vol. 3, no. 1 (March 2011), pp. i-iii.


Transnational Corporations, Vol. 20, No. 1 Jan 2011

Transnational Corporations, Vol. 20, No. 1

Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant and Miles Killingsworth, Guest Editors, Transnational Corporations, vol. 20, no. 1 (April 2011).


Reports Of Overseas Private Investment Corporation Determinations Jan 2011

Reports Of Overseas Private Investment Corporation Determinations

Karl P. Sauvant

This comprehensive two-volume work is a collection of determinations from OPIC, the US governmental political risk insurance provider, in the form of its Memoranda of Determinations from 1966 to 2010. This reference work is the first to make the underlying primary material available to the investment law, political risk and academic communities. The authors have made the claims determinations more accessible with the inclusion of headnote summaries for all determinations. The determinations reflect the decisions of OPIC under US and international law and therefore have a significant impact on its future claims determinations. They reveal what types of claims have …


The Evolving International Investment Regime: Expectations, Realities, Options Jan 2011

The Evolving International Investment Regime: Expectations, Realities, Options

Karl P. Sauvant

The transboundary flow of capital directed at establishing businesses is the engine of the world economy. Approximately 3,000 bilateral and regional investment protection treaties worldwide govern this driver of economic globalization. As might be expected, the international investment regime now competes with the World Trade Organization for global praise and criticism. This volume looks at how these treaties and investor-state arbitrations that apply them accommodate the different expectations of various stockholders, including governments, foreign investors and civil society. The volume’s diverse authors focus especially on the views of developing countries and international civil society. They address the extent to which …


Fdi Perspectives: Issues In International Investment Jan 2011

Fdi Perspectives: Issues In International Investment

Karl P. Sauvant

The 30 chapters in this volume, written by diverse experts on international investment, cover a wide range of issues in this field. Their purpose is to inform readers in a concise manner about some of the important issues and trends in the contemporary debate on FDI and to promote a wide-ranging discussion about the policy implications of major trends and events.


China, Inc. Goes Global, Karl P. Sauvant Jan 2011

China, Inc. Goes Global, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

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Inward And Outward Fdi Country Profiles Jan 2011

Inward And Outward Fdi Country Profiles

Karl P. Sauvant

The key role MNEs play in the global economy through international investment, and the changing landscape of such investment as MNEs as well as host and home economies adjust to changing conditions and objectives, make it important to understand trends and developments with respect to FDI and the policy context in which they take place. This second edition of country profiles seeks to contribute to such an understanding by bringing together, in a single collection, the country profiles on inward and outward FDI prepared as part of the Columbia FDI Profiles series. Authored and peer-reviewed by scholars from around the …