Risk and Foreign Direct Investment

Incorporating an accurate measure of risk is important to the appraisal of an international investment. This book examines and recommends how decisions on international investment projects are made. Critiquing and integrating existing theory, it shows how risk can be incorporated into the present value formula produce a clear decision rule.

List of Tables List of Figures Preface Introduction PART ONE: RISK AND A HOME COUNTRY BIAS A Review of Theory Concerning Risk and the Foreign Investment Decision Risk and Risk-Generating Events Home Country Bias in Foreign Direct Investment PART TWO: DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES ON INVESTMENT APPRAISAL The Investment Process and Decision Making: The Financial Perspective The Investment Process and Decision Making: The Strategic Perspective The Investment Process and Decision Making: The Organizational Perspective PART THREE: THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF RISK The Context of Risk Country Risk Enterprise and Project Risk PART FOUR: RESPONSES TO RISK AND THE DETERMINANTS OF FDI Responses to Risk The Behaviours of FDI Conclusion Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Notes Bibliography Index

COLIN WHITE is Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Management, La Trobe University, Australia. Professor White began his career with an interest in planning, moving on to research the comparative performance of national economies and later the economic performance of the enterprise. Formerly Head of Departments of Economic History, Economics and the Graduate School of Management (inaugural), his most recent book is Strategic Management.

MIAO FAN has an international background having studied and worked in China, holding an MBA from Britain and a PhD from Australia for her thesis on Country Risk and its Impact on the FDI Decision-making Process from an Australian Perspective. She now works in the risk management team at the National Australia Bank.