This article surveys the latest developments in the literature on the impact of inward foreign
direct investment (FDI) on growth in developing countries. In general, FDI is thought of as a …

Most industrialized countries are net importers of carbon emissions, that is, they release
fewer emissions for the production of their total exported goods and services than the …

Multinational Enterprise and Economic Analysis surveys the contributions that economic
analysis has made to our understanding of why multinational enterprises exist and what …

A general equilibrium model of a multinational enterprise based on economies of multi-plant
operation is developed. These economies are modelled as arising from the existence of a …

We examine the empirical role of different explanations for the lack of capital flows from rich
to poor countries—the “Lucas Paradox.” The theoretical explanations include cross-country …

We develop a quantitative spatial model that incorporates a rich geography of trade costs
and labor mobility with heterogeneous worker preferences across locations. We provide …

Most labor economics textbooks pay little attention to actual labor markets, taking as
reference a perfectly competitive market in which losing a job is not a big deal. The …

Immigration is a contentious issue in the industrialized nations of the world. This is true not
merely in traditional receiving countries, such as the United States, Canada and Australia …

The paper formulates hypotheses and reports on individual attitudes towards immigration
based on data for 24 countries on socioeconomic position, sociodemographic …

It is a common assumption that regions within the same country converge to approximately
the same steady-state income levels. The so-called absolute convergence hypothesis …