The surge in overseas investment that has accompanied China’s Belt and Road Initiative has swept into Mediterranean region. Italy, Greece, […]
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Tag: investment
“How to boost productivity in the EU”, Klaus Weyerstrass (IHS, Austria)
Advances in total factor productivity (TFP) are important for sustaining economic growth in modern economies, in particular in the face […]
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Ágnes Szunomár from IWE attended the 11th Conference of the Chinese Community of Political Science and International Studies in Beijing
Ágnes Szunomár presented a lecture Driving forces behind the expansion strategies of Chinese MNEs in Central and Eastern Europe: push and […]
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CIR took part in the training program focused on the economic globalisation and the Belt and Road Initiative in Beijing
Nina Pejič, a Junior Researcher at the Centre of International Relations, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, took part […]
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“Should Europe limit Chinese investment?”, Mario Esteban (Elcano, Spain)
Why would such a European mechanism to supervise investment be necessary at this time? The main reason is the extraordinary […]
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“EU trade policy towards neighbours: experiences and perspectives” Sakariya Yayincili (IWE, Hungary)
(eds.): The EU effect. Perspectives on the EU from Central and Eastern Europe. Sakariya Yayincilik. Sakarya (Turkey) 2017. (ISBN: 978-605-4229-80-2), pp. […]
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“Trade and investment in Central Europe: the lessons of transition for post-socialist Southeast Asia” Ágnes Orosz- Ágnes Szunomár (IWE, Hungary)
In: Bolesta, Andrzej (ed.): Post-Communist Development: Europe’s Experiences, Asia’s Challenges. Warsaw: Collegium Civitas Press, 2017. pp. 101-132. Read it here
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Chinese investment in Spain: open for business, but not at any price, Mario Esteban, Miguel Otero-Iglesias (Elcano, Spain)
in Analyses of the Elcano Royal Institute (ARI), 6 February 2018 Reluctance to Chinese investments in Spain may grow if its […]
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“The Czech Republic: Receiving the First Relevant Chinese Investments”, Rudolf Fürst (IIR, Czech Republic)
The new report prepared by the European Think-tank Network on China (ETNC) contains a chapter from our senior researcher and […]
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“Foreign investors on Slovenian business environment: Research results of the 2017 survey among companies with foreign equity”, Andreja Jaklič, Iris Koleša and Matija Rojec, December 2017 (CIR, Slovenia)
For the past 10 years Centre of International Relations (CIR) has been conducting an annual survey among firms with foreign […]
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Chinese Investment in Europe A Country-Level Approach, John Seaman Mikko Huotari Miguel Otero-Iglesias (Elcano Institute)
This report is the third in an on-going effort to dissect and reassemble Europe–China relations from a European country-level perspective. […]
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“Study on investment needs and obstacles along industrial value chains.”, Andrea Szalavetz, Magdolna Sass et al. (IWE, Hungary)
The European Union currently faces a need to invest in modernising its industry across all value chains in order […]
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Building a hidden investment state? The European Investment Bank, national development banks and European economic governance, Matthias Thiemann, Daniel Mertens (Sciences Po, France)
in Journal of European Public Policy, October 2017 The European Commission’s Investment Plan for Europe and the enduring economic crisis has brought […]
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Turkish investments abroad, with a special focus on Central and Eastern Europe, Tamás Szigetvári (IWE, Hungary)
in: IWE Working Papers, October 2017 Read it here.
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Internationalization of Indian multinational enterprises – Motivations, strategies and regulation from the experience of Indian investments: a focus on Europe, Tamás Gerőcs (IWE, Hungary)
in: IWE Working Papers, October 2017 Read it here.
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Spain and Asia: harnessing trade, soft power and the EU in the Asia-Pacific Century, Ramón Pacheco Pardo (Elcano, Spain)
Since the first framework plan for the Asia-Pacific region in 2000, three Asia-Pacific plans have established Madrid’s strategic stance. Spain’s […]
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FDI promotion of the Visegrád countries in the era of global value chains, Andrea Éltető and Katalin Antalóczy (IWE, Hungary)
Investments (FDI) have become more connected to the global value chains (GVCs) in the past decated. As known, the Visegrád […]
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Upgrading and value capture in global value chains in Hungary: more complex than what the smile curve suggests, Andrea Szalavetz (IWE, Hungary)
In: Szent-Iványi Balázs (ed.) Foreign direct investment in Central and Eastern Europe: post-crisis perspectives. 266 p. Basingstoke; London; New York: […]
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Intangible investments at multinational companies’ manufacturing subsidiaries: do they promote innovation-based upgrading?, Andrea Szalavetz (IWE, Hungary)
Research background: Despite a widely acknowledged importance of intangible capital as the main driver of value creation, papers discussing corporate […]
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WoPSI – the World Politics of Social Investment: An international research project to explain variance in social investment agendas and social investment reforms across countries and world regions, Julian L. Garritzmann, Silja Hausermann and Bruno Palier (Sciences Po, France)
The “World Politics of Social Investment” (WoPSI) project aims at explaining variance in social investment agendas and social investment reforms […]
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