This paper analyzes the impact on firm behavior of the Homeland Investment Act of 2004, which provided a one-time tax …. Repatriations did not lead to an increase in domestic investment, employment or R&D -- even for the firms that lobbied for the tax …

How does rising foreign investment influence domestic economic activity? Firms whose foreign operations grow rapidly …-specific geographic distributions of foreign investment, to predict changes in foreign investment by a large panel of American firms …. Estimates produced using this instrument for changes in foreign activity indicate that 10% greater foreign capital investment is …

This paper evaluates evidence of the impact of outbound foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic investment rates …. OECD countries with high rates of outbound FDI in the 1980s and 1990s exhibited lower domestic investment than other … countries, which suggests that FDI and domestic investment are substitutes. U.S. time series data tell a very different story …

Foreign direct investment offers a rich laboratory in which to study the broader economic effects of securities market …