... professor of international business at the University of Reading, UK, and at Rutgers University. He has been researching into the economics of international direct investment and the multinational ... researcher in the International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment Department at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. He has research interests in the theory of multinational fi rms and trade, international ... refl ects the changing nature of inbound foreign investment fl ows, and the locational decisions of MNEs. Whereas, in the past, sitings of foreign direct investments were primarily determined by...