Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Types of FDI Acquisitions Versus Greenfield Investments Why Foreign Direct Investment? The Radical View toward FDI The Free Market View toward FDI Pragmatic Nationalism Review of the Last Lecture
Benefits and Costs of FDI HOST-COUNTRY BENEFITS: Resource-Transfer Effects Employment Effects Balance-of-Payments Effects Effect on Competition and Economic Growth
HOST-COUNTRY COSTS Adverse Effects on Competition Adverse Effects on the Balance of Payments National Sovereignty and Autonomy Benefits and Costs of FDI
HOME-COUNTRY BENEFITS Balance-of-Payments Effects Employment Effects Reverse Resource-Transfer Effects HOME-COUNTRY COSTS Employment Effects, and Balance-of-Payments Effects Benefits and Costs of FDI