Integration Through Foreign Direct Investment : Making Central European Industries Competitive

by Hunya, Gabor

• ISBN13: 9781840641561
• ISBN10: 1840641568
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub

Author Biography

Christian Bellak is Lecturer in Economics at the University of Economics, Vienna Andrea Elteto is Scientific Researcher at the Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest Gabor Hunya is Senior Research Economist at The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW), Austria Mark Knell is Research Fellow in the Business School at DeMontfort University, Leicester and Research Associate at The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW), Austria Josef Poschl is Senior Research Economist at The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW), Austria Slavo Radosevic is Research Fellow at Science and Technology Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Matija Rojec is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre of International Relations of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana Miklos Szanyi is Scientific Researcher at the Institute for Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest Waltraut Urban is Senior Research Economist at The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW), Austria

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii
List of tables	viii
List of contributors	xi
Foreword	xii
Terutomo Ozawa
Introduction: integration through FDI making central European industries competitive	1	(7)
Gabor Hunya
Central Europe catching-up through FDI?	8	(20)
Gabor Hunya
FDI, technology transfer and growth in economic theory	28	(22)
Mark Knell
Slavo Radosevic
The role of FDI in restructuring and modernization: an overview of literature	50	(31)
Miklos Szanyi
Austria -- catching-up through inward FDI?	81	(30)
Christian Bellak
Foreign penetration in central European manufacturing	111	(19)
Gabor Hunya
Restructuring and efficiency upgrading with FDI	130	(20)
Matija Rojec
Production specialization in central European manufacturing	150	(28)
Waltraut Urban
FIEs and productivity convergence in central Europe	178	(19)
Mark Knell
The impact of FDI on the foreign trade of CECs	197	(21)
Andrea Elteto
FDI in the balance-of-payments framework	218	(27)
Josef Poschl
Index	245