Pinto develops a partisan theory of foreign direct investment (FDI) arguing that left-wing governments choose policies that allow easier entry by foreign investors more than right-wing governments, and that foreign investors prefer to invest in countries governed by the left. To reach this determination, the book derives the conditions under which investment flows should be expected to affect the relative demand for the services supplied by economic actors in host countries. Based on these expected distributive consequences, a political economy model of the regulation of FDI and changes in investment performance within countries and over time is developed. The theory is tested using both cross-national statistical analysis and two case studies exploring the development of the foreign investment regimes and their performance over the past century in Argentina and South Korea.

Full Contributors:
R.M. Abu-Sarris, Birzeit University, Palaestine, L.J.S. Allen, Texas Tech University, USA, B. Aulbach, Universitat Augsburg, Germany, S. Castillo, Universidad del Bio-Bio, Chile, S.S. Cheng, Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, K.A. Cunningham, University of Rhode Island, USA, L.Diaz, Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela, S. Elaydi, Trinity University, Texas, USA, J. Lopez Fenner, Departmento de Matrmaticas y Estadistica, Chile, J. Feuer, St Michael's College, Colchester, USA, A Hoffmann, Technical University of IImenau, Germany, J.A. Kennedy, University of Delaware, Newark, USA, J.C. Kesinger, Texas Tech University, USA, M.R.S. Kulenovic, University of Rhode Island, USA, G. Ladas, University of Rhode Island, USA, A. Loskutov, Moscow State University, Russia, B. Marx, Technical University of IImenau, Germany, R. Medina, Universidad de Los Lagos, Chile, R. Metzger, Technical University of IImenau, Germany, R.Naulin, Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela, M. Pint, Universidad de Chile, Chile, A. Rodkina, University of the West Indies, Jamaica, S. Rybalko, Moscow State University, Russia, S. Siegmund, University of Augsburg, Germany, W.S. Sizer, Minnesota State University of Moorhead, USA, V.P.Sriridonov, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Russia, S. Valicenti, Unversity of Rhode Island, USA, M. Vielhaber, Universidad de la Frontera, Chile, John A. Yorke^n, University of Maryland at College Park,USA, S.Zhang, Shanghai Jaiotong University, China

Pinto develops a partisan theory of foreign direct investment (FDI) arguing that left-wing governments choose policies that allow easier entry by foreign investors more than right-wing governments, and that foreign investors prefer to invest in countries governed by the left. To reach this determination, the book derives the conditions under which investment flows should be expected to affect the relative demand for the services supplied by economic actors in host countries. Based on these expected distributive consequences, a political economy model of the regulation of FDI and changes in investment performance within countries and over time is developed. The theory is tested using both cross-national statistical analysis and two case studies exploring the development of the foreign investment regimes and their performance over the past century in Argentina and South Korea.

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