Multinational Enterprises and Host Country Development

Multinational Enterprises and Host Country Development is a unique collection of papers looking at different aspects of the link between multinational enterprises and their effects on the host countries' economies. The volume studies effects of multinationals on R&D, innovation, productivity, wages, as well as growth and survival of firms in the host countries, and distinguishes direct and indirect effects through spillovers. All the analyses are conducted using firm level data for countries as diverse as China, Ireland, Sweden, Ghana, the UK or a group of countries in Central and Eastern Europe. This volume is a valuable reading for graduate students and researchers wishing to investigate the impact of multinationals.

Holger Görg has been Professor of International Economics at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, and the University of Kiel, Germany, since 2008. He is also affiliated with the Tuborg Research Centre for Globalisation and Firms, Aarhus University, the Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy at the University of Nottingham and IZA. Before joining Kiel he was on the staff at the University of Nottingham, the University of Ulster at Jordanstown and University College Cork. He completed a PhD in Economics in 1999 at Trinity College Dublin. His research interests are in empirical international trade and industrial organisation focusing in particular on the activities of multinational companies, foreign direct investment, and international outsourcing. He has published widely in international journals, including the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of International Economics, European Economic Review, and Economic Journal. Prof. Görg has also worked as consultant for, among others, The World Bank, European Commission, UN Economic Commission for Africa, UN Industrial Development Organization, Inter-American Development Bank, and various governments.