International business the challenge of global competition 13th edition ball solutions manual • 1. Chapter 02 - International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment 2-1 International Business The Challenge of Global Competition 13th Edition Ball SOLUTIONS MANUAL Full download: global-competition-13th-edition-ball-solutions-manual/ International Business The Challenge of Global Competition 13th Edition Ball TEST BANK Full download: global-competition-13th-edition-ball-test-bank/ CHAPTER 2 International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment Learning Objectives LO2-1 Appreciate the magnitude of international trade and how it has grown. LO2-2 Identify the direction of trade, or who trades with whom, and trends in such trade.

LO2-3 Outline the theories that attempt to explain why certain goods are traded internationally. LO2-4 Explain the size, growth, and direction of foreign direct investment LO2-5 Explain several theories of foreign direct investment. NOTE: International business statistics, data, and facts about countries, regions, governments, and companies can change rapidly and dramatically. We recommend that you update this information regularly. As an adopter of this text, McGraw-Hill offers you a complementary online resource each month, the International Business Newsletter. The IB Newsletter gives you an array of timely and relevant articles, videos, country profiles, teaching suggestions, and data resources to add breadth, depth, and richness to the ever-changing topic of international business.

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International trade and foreign direct investment have grown dramatically over the last three decades. Although new trading and investment patterns are emerging, developed nations tend to trade with and invest primarily in other developed nations, and not in developing countries. Trade theories attempt to explain why nations trade with each other.

Mercantilists (1550 to 1800 and perhaps on-going) believed that trade should be a vehicle for accumulating gold. Adam Smith, • Chapter 02 - International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment 2-2 displeased with mercantilist ideas, showed that a nation could acquire what it does not produce by means of free, unregulated trade. A nation could gain most by producing only goods that it could produce with less labor than other nations.