Foreign investment : types, methods and impacts / edited by Torre DeSare and Daniele Caprioglio.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Technology gap, agglomeration and fdi spillovers : a survey of the literature / Jacob A. Jordaan -- Globalization and the rise of logistics FDI : the case of Italy / Elena Maggi, Ilaria Mariotti and others -- Local sourcing and the technology impact on suppliers : comparing fdi and domestic producer firms / Jacob A. Jordaan -- Foreign direct investment, political risk and corporate social responsibility : opportunities for a proactive risk-managing strategy / Alfredo Jimenez Palmero and others -- Hands off my investment! : a time-series cross-section analysis of the relationship between a new measure of political risk and foreign direct investment / Jo Jakobsen -- The effect of inward FDI on economic growth : an empirical investigation for the league of Arab states / Pascal L. Ghazalian -- Comparative study on FDI spillovers in emerging markets : based on the empirical study of the BRIC / He Juxiang -- Impacts of foreign investment on economic development in Mexico / Leendert de Bell -- Do political freedoms attract or discourage foreign direct investment? : evidence from Central and Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union / Jac C. Heckelman -- Corruption, foreign direct investment and the cost of doing business in Vietnam / Tom Arnold, Bonnie Buchanan.