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U.S. politics and greater regulation of inward foreign direct investment

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  • Kang, C. S. Eliot

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An analyst of U.S. foreign economic policy observes that each wave of antiforeign sentiment associated with the surge of foreign direct investment (FDI) coming into the United States washes ashore a flotsam of restrictive and exclusionary laws that recedes slightly or becomes buried and forgotten in the sand only to advance again with a new wave. During the late 1980s, the controversy generated by the sharp rise of Japanese acquisitions in the United States washed ashore the latest flotsam of regulatory measures and further advanced the tangle of rules and regulations targeting inward foreign direct investment (IFDI). Of the various types of FDI, the present study is concerned mainly with the policy change toward foreign investment in an already established domestic business. This type of investment often involves merger or acquisition and is distinct from a “greenfield” investment where the foreign investor establishes “from scratch” a new business in the host economy.

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  • Kang, C. S. Eliot, 1997. "U.S. politics and greater regulation of inward foreign direct investment," International Organization, Cambridge University Press, vol. 51(2), pages 301-333, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:intorg:v:51:y:1997:i:02:p:301-333_44
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    1. Linsi, Lukas, 2019. "The discourse of competitiveness and the dis-embedding of the national economy," SocArXiv s4j6y, Center for Open Science.
    2. Steven Globerman & Daniel Shapiro, 2009. "Economic and strategic considerations surrounding Chinese FDI in the United States," Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Springer, vol. 26(1), pages 163-183, March.
    3. Anastasia Ufimtseva, 2020. "The Rise of Foreign Direct Investment Regulation in Investment‐recipient Countries," Global Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 11(2), pages 222-232, April.

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