CAPITAL OUTFLOWS BY RUSSIAN MULTINATIONALS: EXPLANATION OF WIDER EUROPE’S DOMINANCE

Regulation of capital outflows has become an important task for the Russian economic policy. Such regulation needs the real picture of the Russian outward foreign direct investment (FDI) geography without distortions by official statistics with its data on indirect FDI via offshores. The article is...

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Main Author: A. V. Kuznetsov
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Language:English
Published: MGIMO University Press 2013-08-01
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description Regulation of capital outflows has become an important task for the Russian economic policy. Such regulation needs the real picture of the Russian outward foreign direct investment (FDI) geography without distortions by official statistics with its data on indirect FDI via offshores. The article is based on new empirical FDI data collected by the author. This information shows the dominance of Wider Europe in the Russian outward FDI geography. The regional character of many Russian multinationals can be explained by several key factors, including the importance of market-seeking FDI motives, Russian oligarchs’ attempts at increasing their bargaining power and relatively comfortable business climate of neighboring countries in combination with the lack of experience and weak state support of Russian investors abroad. At the end of the article, some measures for regulation of FDI outflows are offered for diversification of the Russian outward FDI geography. Russian companies need information and institutional support which is a crucial type of incentives for initial stages of their investment projects abroad. Bilateral investment and double taxation treaties are main measures of institutional support. State insurance of investments is a key element of support for mature projects abroad.
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spelling doaj-art-4b84748e92f74a92bd200586e8b4aa4a2025-01-30T12:16:07ZengMGIMO University PressVestnik MGIMO-Universiteta2071-81602541-90992013-08-0104(31)929710.24833/2071-8160-2013-4-31-92-971029CAPITAL OUTFLOWS BY RUSSIAN MULTINATIONALS: EXPLANATION OF WIDER EUROPE’S DOMINANCEA. V. Kuznetsov0Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University), 76, Prospect Vernadskogo, Moscow, 119454, Russia.Regulation of capital outflows has become an important task for the Russian economic policy. Such regulation needs the real picture of the Russian outward foreign direct investment (FDI) geography without distortions by official statistics with its data on indirect FDI via offshores. The article is based on new empirical FDI data collected by the author. This information shows the dominance of Wider Europe in the Russian outward FDI geography. The regional character of many Russian multinationals can be explained by several key factors, including the importance of market-seeking FDI motives, Russian oligarchs’ attempts at increasing their bargaining power and relatively comfortable business climate of neighboring countries in combination with the lack of experience and weak state support of Russian investors abroad. At the end of the article, some measures for regulation of FDI outflows are offered for diversification of the Russian outward FDI geography. Russian companies need information and institutional support which is a crucial type of incentives for initial stages of their investment projects abroad. Bilateral investment and double taxation treaties are main measures of institutional support. State insurance of investments is a key element of support for mature projects abroad.https://www.vestnik.mgimo.ru/jour/article/view/1280russian direct investmentsfditransnational corporationsmnesgeography of foreign investmentregulation of capital outflows
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CAPITAL OUTFLOWS BY RUSSIAN MULTINATIONALS: EXPLANATION OF WIDER EUROPE’S DOMINANCE
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta
russian direct investments
fdi
transnational corporations
mnes
geography of foreign investment
regulation of capital outflows
title CAPITAL OUTFLOWS BY RUSSIAN MULTINATIONALS: EXPLANATION OF WIDER EUROPE’S DOMINANCE
title_full CAPITAL OUTFLOWS BY RUSSIAN MULTINATIONALS: EXPLANATION OF WIDER EUROPE’S DOMINANCE
title_fullStr CAPITAL OUTFLOWS BY RUSSIAN MULTINATIONALS: EXPLANATION OF WIDER EUROPE’S DOMINANCE
title_full_unstemmed CAPITAL OUTFLOWS BY RUSSIAN MULTINATIONALS: EXPLANATION OF WIDER EUROPE’S DOMINANCE
title_short CAPITAL OUTFLOWS BY RUSSIAN MULTINATIONALS: EXPLANATION OF WIDER EUROPE’S DOMINANCE
title_sort capital outflows by russian multinationals explanation of wider europe s dominance
topic russian direct investments
fdi
transnational corporations
mnes
geography of foreign investment
regulation of capital outflows
url https://www.vestnik.mgimo.ru/jour/article/view/1280
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