TY - BOOK AU - Mody Ashoka TI - Foreign direct investment and the world economy SN - 0415701929 AV - HG4538 U1 - 332.67/3 PY - 2007/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Investments Foreign KW - Case studies KW - International economic integration N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Is FDI integrating the world economy? FDI determinants : agglomeration, information, and policy -- International investment location decisions : the case of U.S. firms / Ashoka Mody with David Wheeler -- Japanese and U.S. firsm as foreign investors: do they march to the same tune? / Ashoka Mody with Krishna Srinivasan -- Private information for foreign investment in emerging economies / Ashoka Mody with Yuko Kinoshita -- The global disconnect : the role of transactional distance and scale economies in gravity equations / Ashoka Mody with Prakash Loungani and Assaf Razin -- Japanese multinationals in Asia : capabilities and motivations / Ashoka Mody with Susmita Dasgupta and Sarbajit Sinha -- FDI benefits : growth, investment, and efficiency -- Explaining industrial growth in coastal China : economic reforms...and what else? / Ashoka Mody with Fang-Yi Wang -- Growing up with capital flows / Ashoka Mody with Antu Panini Murshid -- How foreign participation and market concentration impact bank spreads : evidence from Latin America / Ashoka Mody with Maria Soledad Martinez Peria -- The role of cross-border mergers and acquisitions in Asian restructuring / Ashoka Mody with Shoko Negishi ER -