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1 online resource (xxxvi, 570 pages) : illustrations |
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Sovereign investment : an introduction / Wouter P.F. Schmit Jongbloed, Lisa E. Sachs and Karl P. Sauvant -- Sovereign wealth funds : an overview / Mark Gordon and Sabastian V. Niles -- Sovereign wealth funds : a developing country perspective / Stephany Griffith-Jones and José Antonio Ocampo -- Sovereign wealth funds and the crisis : investment managers or providers of liquidity? / Paola Subacchi -- The international activities and effects of state-owned enterprises / Daniel M. Shapiro and Steven Globerman -- Sovereign wealth funds and global finance / Katharina Pistor -- National security and foreign government ownership restrictions on foreign investment : predictability for investors at the national level / Mark A. Clodfelter and Francesca M. Soria Guerrero -- Are sovereign wealth fund investments politically biased? a comparison with mutual funds / Rolando Avendaño and Javier Santiso -- Sovereign concerns and the investment regime / José E. Alvarez -- Sovereign wealth funds and national security / Patrick DeSouza and W. Michael Reisman -- Sovereign wealth funds and regulation : some conceptual issues / Alan M. Rugman -- The evolution of the essential security exception in U.S. trade and investment agreements / James Mendenhall -- Do the rules need to be changed for state-controlled entities? the case of sovereign wealth funds / Edwin M. Truman -- The U.S. approach to sovereign wealth funds and the role of CFIUS / Clay Lowery -- Lessons from CFIUS for national security reviews of foreign investment / Alan P. Larson, David N. Fagan, Alexander A. Berengaut, and mark E. Plotkin -- The Canadian policy response to sovereign direct investment / A. Edward Safarian -- Sovereign wealth funds and the German policy reaction / Thomas Jost -- The regulation of sovereign wealth funds in the European Union : can the supranational level limit the rise of national protectionism? / Julien Chaisse -- Foreign government-controlled investors and host country investment policies : OECD perspectives / Kathryn Gordon and David Gaukrodger -- Sovereign wealth funds and the IMF / Udaibir S. Das, Adnan Mazarei, and Alison Stuart -- Foreign direct investment by state-controlled entities at a crossroad of economic history : conference report of the rapporteur / Maya Steinitz |
| Summary |
Sovereign Investment: Concerns and Policy Reactions provides the first major holistic examination and interdisciplinary analysis of sovereign wealth funds. Sovereign wealth funds currently hold three trillion dollars' worth of investments, almost twice the amount in all the hedge funds worldwide, and are predicted to hold nine trillion more by 2015. This relatively new and rapidly expanding phenomenon remains relatively unregulated, but the International Monetary Fund and the G7 aim to establish temporary and voluntary rules to introduce transparency and uniformity until more permanent regulat |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Sovereign wealth funds -- Law and legislation -- United States
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Sovereign wealth funds -- Law and legislation -- European Union countries
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Investments, Foreign -- Law and legislation -- United States
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Investments, Foreign -- Law and legislation -- European Union countries
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LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
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Investments, Foreign -- Law and legislation
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Sovereign wealth funds -- Law and legislation
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United States of America.
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European Union.
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Foreign direct investment.
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Sovereign wealth funds.
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State-owned enterprises.
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National security.
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Economic sovereignty.
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International financial law.
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Investissements étrangers -- Droit international.
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Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law.
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Law.
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European Union countries
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sauvant, Karl P
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Sachs, Lisa E
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Jongbloed, Wouter P. F. Schmit
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| ISBN |
9780199374892 |
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0199374899 |
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0190260165 |
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9780190260163 |
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