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  • March 2006 (Revised November 2010)
  • Background Note

Protecting Foreign Investors

By: Louis T. Wells Jr.
Describes the emergence of several kinds of efforts to assure the safety of foreign investment in emerging markets: international arbitration, expanded official political risk insurance, credit from government agencies, and intervention by investors' home governments.... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Risk Management; Emerging Markets; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Government Relations; Safety
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Wells, Louis T., Jr. "Protecting Foreign Investors." Harvard Business School Background Note 706-044, March 2006. (Revised November 2010.)
  • 13 Jun 2011
  • News

Welcoming Foreign Investors

Keywords: Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • March 2005 (Revised June 2005)
  • Background Note

Arbitration between Foreign Investors and Host Governments

By: Louis T. Wells Jr. and Regina Garcia-Cuellar
Explains the emergence of international arbitration as an option for foreign investors with disputes with governments of emerging markets. Presents issues about whether arbitration will remain acceptable to countries and governments. View Details
Keywords: Conflict and Resolution; Foreign Direct Investment; Globalized Markets and Industries; Emerging Markets; Government and Politics
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Wells, Louis T., Jr., and Regina Garcia-Cuellar. "Arbitration between Foreign Investors and Host Governments." Harvard Business School Background Note 705-035, March 2005. (Revised June 2005.)
  • January–February 2015
  • Article

Heroic Villains: Are Foreign Investors Problems or Solutions in the Ebola Crisis?

By: Debora L. Spar
For months, the news out of West Africa has been unrelentingly grim. As of early December, the devastating Ebola epidemic had infected a reported 17,942 people and killed 6,388, according to the World Health Organization (WHO); the actual toll, which would also account... View Details
Keywords: Ebola; Multinational Corporation; Epidemics; Foreign Investment; Extractive Industries; Multinational Firms and Management; Health Pandemics; Developing Countries and Economies; Government and Politics; Africa
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Spar, Debora L. "Heroic Villains: Are Foreign Investors Problems or Solutions in the Ebola Crisis?" Foreign Policy 210 (January–February 2015).
  • March 2003
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Foreign Currency for Long-Term Investors

By: Luis M. Viceira, John Y. Campbell and Joshua S. White
Keywords: Currency; Investment
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Viceira, Luis M., John Y. Campbell, and Joshua S. White. "Foreign Currency for Long-Term Investors." Economic Journal 113, no. 486 (March 2003).
  • 1981
  • Chapter

Foreign Investors from the Third World

By: L. T. Wells Jr.
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Developing Countries and Economies
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Wells, L. T., Jr. "Foreign Investors from the Third World." In Multinationals from Developing Countries, edited by Krishna Kumar and Maxwell McLeod. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company, 1981.
  • winter 1985
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Sovereignty en Garde: Negotiating with Foreign Investors

By: L. T. Wells Jr. and D. Encarnation
Keywords: Negotiation; Investment
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Wells, L. T., Jr., and D. Encarnation. "Sovereignty en Garde: Negotiating with Foreign Investors." International Organization 39, no. 1 (winter 1985): 47–78. (Reprinted in Benjamin Gomes-Casseres and David B. Yoffie (eds.) The International Political Economy of Direct Foreign Investment. London: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 1993.)
  • 1993
  • Chapter

Mobile Exporters: New Foreign Investors in East Asia

By: L. T. Wells Jr.
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Trade; Asia
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Wells, L. T., Jr. "Mobile Exporters: New Foreign Investors in East Asia." In Foreign Direct Investment, edited by K. Froot, 173–91. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
  • 30 Aug 2016
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Foreign Investors Push Boston Real Estate Prices Higher

  • 04 Sep 2015
  • News

Foreign investors navigate turmoil in Chinese markets with new playbook

  • 2005
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The New International Property Rights: Can the Foreign Investor Rely on Them?

By: L. T. Wells Jr.
Keywords: Property; Rights; Foreign Direct Investment; Trust
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Wells, L. T., Jr. "The New International Property Rights: Can the Foreign Investor Rely on Them?" In International Political Risk Management: Looking to the Future. Vol. III, edited by Theodore H. Moran and Gerald T. West. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2005.
  • 05 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

investors; they evolved toward more friendly approaches. Many countries created new incentives for investors and built investment promotion agencies to attract new companies. The causes were several: Better educated and more experienced... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities
  • July 2004
  • Article

Protecting Foreign Investors in the Developing World: A Shift in U.S. Policy in the 1990s?

By: L. T. Wells Jr.
Keywords: Governance; Global Range; Investment; Developing Countries and Economies
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Wells, L. T., Jr. "Protecting Foreign Investors in the Developing World: A Shift in U.S. Policy in the 1990s?" Transnational Dispute Management 1, no. 3 (July 2004). (Published as "Protecting Foreign Investors in the Developing World: A Shift in U.S. Policy in the 1990s?" In International Business and Government Relations in the 21st Century: In Honor of Jack Behrman, edited by Robert Grosse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.)
  • January 1994
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Foreign Multinationals in British Manufacturing, 1850-1962

By: G. Jones and Frances Bostock
This article draws on a new database to describe the dimensions and characteristics of 685 foreign companies which established British manufacturing subsidiaries between 1850 and 1962. The numbers of foreign companies grew from the 1890s, expanded rapidly in the... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Expansion; Chemicals; Metals and Minerals; Food; Mergers and Acquisitions; Market Entry and Exit; Research and Development; Trade; Investment; Production; United Kingdom; United States; Scotland; Wales
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Jones, G., and Frances Bostock. "Foreign Multinationals in British Manufacturing, 1850-1962." Business History 36, no. 1 (January 1994): 89–126.
  • 1998
  • Chapter

God and Fair Competition: Does the Foreign Direct Investor Face Still Other Risks in Emerging Markets

By: L. T. Wells Jr. and T. Moran
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Fairness; Competition; Emerging Markets
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Wells, L. T., Jr., and T. Moran. "God and Fair Competition: Does the Foreign Direct Investor Face Still Other Risks in Emerging Markets." In Managing International Political Risk, edited by Theodore Moran. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998.
  • June 2009
  • Journal Article

Taxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities

By: Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala
Investors can access foreign diversification opportunities through either foreign portfolio investment (FPI) or foreign direct investment (FDI). The worldwide tax regime employed by the U.S. potentially distorts this choice by penalizing FDI, relative to FPI, in... View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Investment Portfolio; Multinational Firms and Management; Taxation; Diversification; United States
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Desai, Mihir, and Dhammika Dharmapala. "Taxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities." Journal of Public Economics 93, nos. 5-6 (June 2009): 703–714.
  • 07 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

a plan to curb foreign tax havens and end tax breaks for "companies that ship jobs overseas" in May, 2009.) One heated issue is the charge that the U.S. tax code provides incentives for companies to ship jobs overseas. It's... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Mar 2015
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President Obama to Announce New Steps to Attract Foreign Investors and Create Jobs through the Continued Expansion of the SelectUSA Initiative

  • 09 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.

approach is for the government to delegate the management of investment promotion activities to the private sector. This approach often has the disadvantage that the private sector will not handle well the attributes of the task that are more like traditional... View Details
Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint
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Political Risk, Foreign Intervention and International Arbitration

The Empire Trap:  America's Attempts to Protect Property Rights Overseas, 1898-2008, is a history of the U.S. government's attempts to protect the property rights of American investors when they venture outside the boundaries of the United... View Details

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