The Location of Foreign Direct Investment
A Subnational Perspective and the Chinese Experience
Published on 12. June 1997
Book
Hardback
210 pages
978-1-85972-629-7 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing from such disciplines as economic geography, spatial economics, and international business, this book addresses the location of foreign direct investment for the People's Republic of China. It looks at how investment decisions are influenced according to location of businesses.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
figures, tables
Dimensions
Height: 157 mm
Width: 227 mm
Weight
425 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85972-629-7 (9781859726297)
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Content
The location of FDI - a literature review; the location of FDI within a subnational context; the philosophy, objectives, and process of inducing foreign directive investment; why these cities and not those?; location of FDI at the prefecture city level - a statistical analysis; the country of origin effect. Appendices: regression analysis of pledged FDI on latent urban variables; regression analysis of FDI on factual urban variables; implication of policy dummy variables; list of abbrevations; definition of variables.