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Tables of Contents for Politics and International Investment
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Figures
vii
List of Tables
viii
Foreword
Oliver E. Williamson
ix
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction
1
15
Trends in International Investment
2
3
Political and Regulatory Risk
5
8
Overview of the Book
13
3
Checks and Balances and Credible Commitment
16
12
The Property Rights Paradigm
18
5
The Governance Branch of the New Institutional Economics
23
3
A Unified Treatment?
26
2
Comparative Economic Organization - within and between Countries
28
17
The Baseline Setup
29
2
Shift Parameters for Domestic Investors
31
3
Shift Parameters for Multinational Corporations
34
8
An Application to Recent Economic Crises
42
1
Conclusion
43
2
The Institutional Environment for Economic Growth
45
36
A New Measure of Credible Commitment
49
16
Tests of the Proposed Measure
65
6
Conclusion
71
10
Constructing POLCON and POLCONJ
78
3
The Institutional Environment for Telecommunications Investment
81
24
Theory
82
7
Key Variables
89
2
Graphical Analysis, 1960-92
91
3
Econometric Analysis
94
9
Conclusion
103
2
The Institutional Environment for Multinational Investment
105
32
International Transaction Cost Economics
107
6
Empirics
113
22
Conclusion
135
2
Conclusion
137
3
Notes
140
19
Bibliography
159
28
Index
187
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