Foreign Direct Investment and Investment Policy (3rd Edition)
A special issue of Economies (ISSN 2227-7099). This special issue belongs to the section "Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, and Financial Markets".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 304
Special Issue Editor
Interests: international trade; foreign direct investment; economic development; economic growth; tourism; exchange rate volatility
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
International financial flows, such as foreign direct investment, play an important role in open economies. As such, they are becoming increasingly important for developing countries given their fragile institutions and financial constraints. However, the situation became even more challenging with the COVID-19 pandemic.
This Special Issue of Economies welcomes submissions on any topic related to foreign direct investment and investment policy. The purpose of this publication is to collect recent high-quality research on the different problems related to foreign direct investment, including research pertaining to, but not limited to, the determinants of foreign direct investment, foreign investment and outsourcing, international investment agreements, investment promotion programs, international finance, and investment policy.
This Special Issue welcomes scholars to submit conceptual papers as well as full-length articles on various topics that pertain to foreign direct investment and investment policy. Both empirical and theoretical papers will be considered.
Prof. Dr. E. M. Ekanayake
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- foreign direct investment
- foreign portfolio investment
- international finance
- international
- investment policy
- FDI and international trade
- FDI spillovers
- determinants of FDI
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