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The shield of nationality : = when governments break contracts with foreign firms /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The shield of nationality :/ Rachel Wellhausen, University of Texas, Austin.
Reminder of title:	when governments break contracts with foreign firms /
Author:	Wellhausen, Rachel L.,
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 271 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Public contracts - Developing countries. -
Subject:	Developing countries - Foreign economic relations - United States. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316014547
ISBN:	9781316014547 (ebook)

The shield of nationality : = when governments break contracts with foreign firms /
Wellhausen, Rachel L.,

The shield of nationality :when governments break contracts with foreign firms /Rachel Wellhausen, University of Texas, Austin. - 1 online resource (xiii, 271 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015).

Nationality and leverage in a globalized world -- When governments break contracts -- National diversity and contract sanctity -- Explaining breach around the world: quantitative tests -- Foreign firms and their diplomats in Ukraine -- Moldovan deterrence versus Romanian gold -- Investor-government relations in history -- When national diversity erodes property rights.

There is extraordinary variation in how governments treat multinational corporations in emerging economies; in fact, governments around the world have nationalized or eaten away at the value of foreign-owned property in violation of international treaties. This even occurs in poor countries, where governments are expected to, at a minimum, respect the contracts they make with foreign firms lest foreign capital flee. In The Shield of Nationality, Rachel Wellhausen introduces foreign-firm nationality as a key determinant of firms' responses to government breaches of contract. Firms of the same nationality are likely to see a compatriot's broken contract as a forewarning of their own problems, leading them to take flight or fight. In contrast, firms of other nationalities are likely to meet the broken contract with apparent indifference. Evidence includes quantitative analysis and case studies that draw on field research in Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania.

ISBN: 9781316014547 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

1156685
Public contracts
--Developing countries.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

585973
Developing countries
--Foreign economic relations--United States.

LC Class. No.: HD4420.8 / .W45 2015

Dewey Class. No.: 346.02/3

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