Foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade are driving forces in agro-food global value chains (GVCs), allowing … companies to spread their activities across countries in complex production chains. This study explores the landscape of FDI in …-2017. The study finds that FDI plays an important role in driving participation in agro-food GVCs, underscoring the close …

This paper constructs indicators of tax burden on FDI in order to review their trends and cross-country patterns. Over … the 1990s, the overall tax burden on inward FDI (measured by the effective marginal tax rates) fell by 8 percentage points …. With the effective tax rates on inward FDI differing across host countries by as much as 28 percentage points for marginal …

competitive diffusion, namely defensive moves of developing countries concerned about foreign direct investment (FDI) diversion in … countries that compete for FDI from the same developed country have previously signed agreements with similarly weak provisions … FDI-competing developing countries have previously signed with a specific developed source country of FDI. …

foreign direct investment (FDI) dynamics at different levels of aggregation as well as at firm level. We propose a theoretical … reduction in FDI resulting from both physical and transition risks but an ambiguous interaction effect of these risks with … we do not find consistent evidence for statistically significant effects of physical and transition risks on FDI. However …

) investment to corporate income taxation using a panel of unconsolidated subsidiary-level and consolidated group-level data from … the ORBIS database. First, the paper provides new evidence on the heterogeneity of investment responses to taxation across … associated with decreased investment sensitivity to taxation among MNE subsidiaries. Second, a new empirical approach is used to …

spillovers from multinationals to domestic firms justify pro- FDI policies. For the first time, we use firm-to-firm transaction …