Foreign direct investment in the Ottoman Empire

Attitudes and political risk

Bibliographic Data

ID8418659
AuthorsV Necla Geyikdagi (a Department of Economics , Yeditepe University , Istanbul, Turkey), V Necla Geyikdağı (Yeditepe University, corresponding author), Mehmet Yasar Geyikdagi (SUNY Old Westbury)
Year2011
Volume53
Issue3
Pages375-400
Publication date2011-06-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueBusiness History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-6791 • E-ISSN: 1743-7938
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00076791.2011.565514
OpenAlexW2048434131
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited16

This study examines political risk for foreign direct investment in the Ottoman Empire during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Such a study has not previously been carried out. Despite many vicissitudes, such as wars and rebellions, the investment climate was more welcoming as compared to neighbouring lands such as Russia and the Balkan countries. While the Ottomans had a corrupt bureaucracy, as in Russia and the Balkans, they were free of xenophobia. Even those Ottoman intellectuals who were against complete freedom in international trade acknowledged the necessity of attracting foreign capital to the country, and suggested policy recommendations

Ancient history · Bureaucracy · Capital (architecture · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Empire · Foreign capital · Foreign direct investment · Investment (military · Ottoman empire · Political economy · Political risk · Political science · Politics · Xenophobia · History · Law · Natural Resources and Economic Development · Socioeconomic Development in MENA

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