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Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in Real Estate 1985-1994

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  • Roger Farrell
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This paper explores the political economy of Japanese real estate foreign direct investment between 1985 and 1994. In this period there was a remarkable rise and decline in Japanese real estate investment abroad. The experience was important, not only because of the sharp growth in the share of real estate FDI in Japan’s overall FDI in these years, but because real estate investment became a focal point of international tension between Japan and other countries which absorbed it. To understand both the speed of the advance and retreat of Japanese FDI and its impact on host economies and communities, it is necessary to explain its principal causes. There are two main explanations of foreign direct investment in the economic literature on the theory of foreign investment. One derives from the traditional industrial organisation theories of FDI, which explain direct investment in terms of the specific advantages and characteristics of investor firms. This type of investment promises investor control over assets and an active managerial role and is associated with the strategic international expansion of firms, based on their specific advantages over local firms (Dunning1981). These condexplains capital flows as a response to the differing yields on investment associated with variations in financial conditions across countries, developments in foreign exchange markets and regulations affecting capital flows. This type of investment occurs without significant investor control over assets held abroad(Hymer1960). The paper argues that, for the most part, Japanese real estate investment was of the latter type and that the organisational and corporate strengths of investment firms explain little of the timing or impact of Japanese real estate FDI, in the 1980s. A wide range of Japanese investors, without specific capabilities or expertise in international real estate markets, participated in the often speculative acquisition and development of foreign office, hotel and other properties. This conclusion is critical to understanding, not only why Japanese real estate investment emerged and retreated so rapidly, but also why host countries responded to this experience in the way in which they did.

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  • Roger Farrell, 1997. "Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in Real Estate 1985-1994," Asia Pacific Economic Papers 272, Australia-Japan Research Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.
    • Handle: RePEc:csg:ajrcau:272
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    1. Roger Farrell, 2000. "Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in the World Economy 1951-1997," Asia Pacific Economic Papers 299, Australia-Japan Research Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.
    2. Nektarios A. Michail & George Thucydides, 2019. "The impact of foreign demand on Cyprus house prices," Cyprus Economic Policy Review, University of Cyprus, Economics Research Centre, vol. 13(2), pages 48-71, December.
    3. Peter Drysdale & Roger Farrell, 1999. "Perspectives on Japanese Investment, Employment and Management in Australia," Asia Pacific Economic Papers 290, Australia-Japan Research Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.

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    • F30 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - General

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