Foreign direct investment and the multinational enterprise

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreign direct investment and the multinational enterprise : an introduction / Steven Brakman and Harry Garretsen -- Trade costs and foreign direct investment / J. Peter Neary -- Investment liberalization and the geography of firm location / Anders N. Hoffman and James R. Markusen -- Outsourcing, contracts and innovation networks / Alireza Naghavi and Gianmarco Ottaviano -- Agglomeration and government spending / Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen and Charles van Marrewijk -- Transfer pricing and enforcement policy in oligopolistic markets / Oscar Amerighi -- Gains from trade and fragmentation / Alan V. Deardorff -- Spacey parents : spatial autoregressive patterns in inbound FDI / Bruce A. Blonigen ... [et al.] -- Do Italian firms improve their performance at home by investing abroad? / Giorgio Barba Navaretti and Davide Castellani -- Is human capital losing from outsourcing? Evidence for Austria and poland / Andzelika Lorentowicz, Dalia Marin, and Alexander Raubold -- Is it strategic to attract the service activities of multinational firms? Some empirical evidence / Fabrice Defever.