Research Catalog

Title

Inward investment, technological change and growth : the impact of multinational corporations on the UK economy / edited by Nigel Pain.

Publication

New York : Palgrave in association with National Institute of Economic and Social Research, 2001.

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Additional Authors

Pain, Nigel.

Description

xiv, 273 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• Technology transfer > Great Britain
• Great Britain > Economic conditions > 1997-
• Investments, Foreign > Great Britain

Note

• Collection of papers presented at a conference held at the British Academy in Sept. 1999.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. The growth and impact of inward investment in the UK: introduction and overview / Nigel Pain -- 2. The determinants of host country spillovers from foreign direct investment: a review and synthesis of the literature / Magnus Blomstrom, Ari Kokko and Steven Globerman -- 3. Inward investment and technical progress in the UK / Florence Hubert and Nigel Pain -- 4. Host country effects of FDI in the UK: recent evidence from firm data / Sourafel Girma, David Greenaway and Katharine Wakelin / [et al.] -- 5. Why do foreign-owned firms in the UK have higher labour productivity? / Nicholas Oulton -- 6. Regional policy and the impact of FDI in the UK / Nigel Driffield -- 7. A regional computable general equilibrium analysis of the demand and 'efficiency spillover' effects of foreign direct investment / Gary Gillespie, Peter G. McGregor and J. Kim Swales / [et al.] --
• 8. Sticky places in slippery space - the location of innovation by MNCs in the European regions / John Cantwell, Simona Iammarino and Camilla Noonan -- 9. Foreign trade and FDI stocks in British, US and French industries: complements or substitutes? / Lionel Fontagne and Michael Pajot.

ISBN

033392536X

LCCN

00062601

OCLC

• ocm44841517
• SCSB-4107433

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Columbia University Libraries