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Company Law and Economic Protectionism$
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Ulf Bernitz and Wolf-Georg Ringe

Print publication date: 2010

Print ISBN-13: 9780199591459

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2011

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199591459.001.0001

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Sovereign Wealth Funds—Market Investors or ‘Imperialist Capitalists’? The European Response to Direct Investments by Non-EU State-Controlled Entities

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(p. 250 ) 12 Sovereign Wealth Funds—Market Investors or ‘Imperialist Capitalists’? The European Response to Direct Investments by Non-EU State-Controlled Entities
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Company Law and Economic Protectionism
Author(s):

Heike Schweitzer

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199591459.003.0012

This chapter explores European attitudes towards Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs). Following a brief survey of the specific characteristics and relevance of SWFs and the response that the increased economic importance of state-controlled foreign direct investment has received in the US, it outlines the general approach of EU law to the direct involvement of EU Member States in European markets. It then asks how the presence of non-EU states in European markets can and should be addressed under EU law.

Keywords:   Sovereign Wealth Funds, EU law, European markets, EU member states, foreign direct investment

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