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Foreign Capital and Technology in China brings together both Chinese and non-Chinese policy-makers, managers, and scholars to examine the role of private foreign business in China.

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Furthering internalization theory, this book develops an FDI signaling framework, proposing that the firm's direct investment influences the perceptions of less-informed market participants.

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An analysis of the risks involved in foreign investment in China. The book also looks at the different forms of investment activities, policies and incentives, and offers specific case studies of foreign direct investment in China.

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Shows how the functions of these two agencies have encouraged foreign investment in LDCs and how the operations of these two agencies continue to grow in importance.

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The 1990s saw global flows of foreign direct investment increase some sevenfold, spurring economists to explore FDI from a micro- or trade-based perspective. This book analyzes the macroeconomics of FDI, treating FDI as a unique form of international capital flow between specific pairs of countries.

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Foreign exchange black markets in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Jamaica and Peru were studied during the period 1990-93.

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This book presents cumulative learning experiences useful for business executives and public officials who must develop new foreign investment strategies, as well as scholars and students interested in the role of foreign investment in developing countries.

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Scholars and many practitioners in the fields of finance and economics now agree that the ultimate objective of financing, whether debt or equity, is to maximize wealth. Drawing on such a premise, this book examines whether debt financing in the form of foreign loans has led to more wealth in the case of the less developed countries.

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Provides a comprehensive investigation of foreign ownership in the United States. Based on the latest, most reliable data and comprising the viewpoints of leading authorities on foreign direct investment, the book offers detailed previously unpublished information on the effects of foreign direct investment in the United States.

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The authors consider the opportunities for foreign participants in the rapidly evolving People's Republic of China across all sectors of economic activity: banking, securities markets, infrastructure, and business investment.

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Dr. Lowell and the contributors to this volume explore the labour market impacts these people are having, and lay out a variety of policy options to deal with them.

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This study focuses on China's state and agricultural economy, in the basic time range of the Opium War of the 1840s through 1948, the eve of the Communist government.

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In this groundbreaking new study, Clements assesses the impact of alternative foreign trade strategies--export promotion and import substitution--on employment and income distribution in Brazil.

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This book examines the role of forensic musicologists in music copyright infringement claims. It analyzes the contested nature of the legal space in relation to the sometimes contradictory opinions of expert witnesses and non-expert judges and juries.

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Chronicles the lives and careers of the men who defined this first wave of economic fortune tellers, men such as Roger Babson, Irving Fisher, John Moody, C J Bullock, and Warren Persons.

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Individuals and families make key decisions that impact many aspects of financial stability and determine the future of the economy. These decisions involve balancing current sacrifice against future benefits. This book is about modeling this individual or family-based decision making using an optimizing dynamic programming model.

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'Foundations of Natural Gas Price Formation' analyzes market pricing for natural gas as a unique and controversially priced commodity. Natural gas is a critical foundational fuel that will not be supplemented by renewables for many years. Sergei Komlev explains why and how correct market price signals are critical to avoiding potential market failure.

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This book presents social ecological economics as an emerging paradigm combining critical social science with structural realism to offer a radical, theoretically grounded, alternative economics based on ethical social provisioning and meeting needs. The foundations include its radical roots, philosophical presuppositions and preanalytic vision.

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The use of fracking is a tremendously important technology for the recovery of oil and gas, but the advantages and costs of fracking remain controversial.