Multinational Corporations, FDI and the East Asian Economic Integration
2011/07/19
研討會日期 : 2011-07-19
時間 : 14:30
主講人 : Professor Tzu-Han Yang
地點 : Conference Room B110
演講者簡介 : Tzu-Han Yang got her Ph.D. in Economics from University of California, Davis in 1993. She is currently serving as Professor of Department of Public Finance at National Taipei University. Her research field is in public finance and social welfare, international economics, industrial organization, computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling, and econometrics.
演講摘要 : The phenomenon of fast-growing business activities of multinational corporations around the world has generated much interest in understanding its implications for the development of world economy as well as the relationship among national economies. By analyzing the world top 2000 firms published by the Forbes (the Forbes Global 2000), this article first investigates the contents and structural evolution of these giant multinational firms, and their relationship with national FDI. Then we adopt the method of clustering analysis to investigate the FDI and trade networks within and among regions through which the development of regional economic integration are revealed.
