Foreign direct investment in Central Eastern Europe

The Investment-Promotion Machines: The Politics of Foreign Direct Investment Promotion in Central and Eastern Europe

A variety of foreign-led economies emerged in Central and Eastern Europe in the late 1990s. State economic strategies in the Visegrad Four region (V4) of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland have converged towards a distinct model of competition states. This article investigates the politics of investment attraction and promotion of particular investors within the states and regions...

International Co-invention in Central and Eastern Europe: the Role of Foreign Direct Investment

International Co-Invention – characterized by patent applications where at least one of the co-inventor is foreign – has boomed in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) since 1990. A significant number of these patents arise out of various forms of R&D collaboration with multinationals. We explain this phenomenon, building on the concept of “idea gap” elaborated by Romer (1993): western multinationa...

Foreign direct investment in the financial sector - experiences in Asia, central and eastern Europe and Latin America - June 2005

No 25 Foreign direct investment in the financial sector-experiences in Asia, central and eastern Europe and Latin America Summary of follow-up workshops to the CGFS report, " Foreign direct investment in the financial sector of emerging economies " June 2005 Copies of publications are available from:

Culture , Contacts and Capital : Social Relations as Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe

Evolutionary understanding of corporate foreign investment behaviour: US foreign direct investment in Europe

Evolutionary understanding of behaviour of firms is gradually becoming more accepted in a variety of disciplines such as economics, management and organization. Contributing to a multidisciplinary understanding of strategic behaviour, this paper analyzes foreign direct investment strategies of US firms in Europe since the second world war. Taking routinized investment behaviour, satisficing str...