Foreign Governments at Work: An Introductory Study.

Should Governments Compete for Foreign Direct Investment?*

We study two governments, each considering whether or not to compete to attract a foreign monopoly Þrm into its own domestic market. The competition, should it occur, would involve offering incentives to the Þrm. The incentives, which are costly for the governments to provide, lower the Þrm’s marginal cost of production. Faced with the offers from each country, the Þrm must choose one of four o...

Leibniz's " Calculemus! " at Work 1 1. Introductory Remarks

There are at least four aspects in which Leibniz’s logical heritage can be considered. The first aspect is purely philosophical and the central topic here is the well known scene with the two disputing philosophers which finally take their quills, sit down at their abaci and inviting each other in a friendly manner begin calculating “the truth”. According to the programme of Leibniz, human reas...

Governments , Partisanship , and Foreign Policy : The Case of Dispute Duration

Foreign Direct Investment, Labour Unions, and Self-interested Governments

This document examines foreign direct investment (FDI) when multinationals and labour unions bargain over labour contracts and lobby the self-interested government for taxation and labour market regulation. It is shown that FDI is best protected from expropriation in unionized economies with right-to-manage bargaining, not bargaining over wages and employment. When the labour market is nonunion...

An introductory study of Mongolian intonation

This paper presents an introductory study of Mongolian intonation. Some preliminary results on the use of pitch in forming declarative utterances and in signalling focus are presented.