A note on intra-industry foreign direct investment

This note suggests that patterns of international direct investment in manufacturing industry not only tend to follow those of commodity trade, but that, over the years 1965-1975, the intra-industry component of such investment had tended to increase. However, there are only a few countries in the w...

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Main Author: J.H. DUNNING
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associazione Economia civile 2013-11-01
Series:PSL Quarterly Review
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Online Access:https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa04/psl_quarterly_review/article/view/11055
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description This note suggests that patterns of international direct investment in manufacturing industry not only tend to follow those of commodity trade, but that, over the years 1965-1975, the intra-industry component of such investment had tended to increase. However, there are only a few countries in the world which are both substantial inward and outward direct investors. Nevertheless, data on outward and inward direct investment assets in five countries over this 10 year period reveal some interesting insights. JEL: F21
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spelling doaj.art-c4d9bec91dc946d8994b014788df762d2023-02-03T16:45:46ZengAssociazione Economia civilePSL Quarterly Review2037-36352037-36432013-11-013413910.13133/2037-3643/11055A note on intra-industry foreign direct investmentJ.H. DUNNINGThis note suggests that patterns of international direct investment in manufacturing industry not only tend to follow those of commodity trade, but that, over the years 1965-1975, the intra-industry component of such investment had tended to increase. However, there are only a few countries in the world which are both substantial inward and outward direct investors. Nevertheless, data on outward and inward direct investment assets in five countries over this 10 year period reveal some interesting insights. JEL: F21 https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa04/psl_quarterly_review/article/view/11055Foreign direct investmentmanufacturingcommodity tradeintra-industry investment
spellingShingle J.H. DUNNING
A note on intra-industry foreign direct investment
PSL Quarterly Review
Foreign direct investment
manufacturing
commodity trade
intra-industry investment
title A note on intra-industry foreign direct investment
title_full A note on intra-industry foreign direct investment
title_fullStr A note on intra-industry foreign direct investment
title_full_unstemmed A note on intra-industry foreign direct investment
title_short A note on intra-industry foreign direct investment
title_sort note on intra industry foreign direct investment
topic Foreign direct investment
manufacturing
commodity trade
intra-industry investment
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