Direct investment has accounted for about a quarter of total international capital outflows in the 1990s and appears to … have grown, relative to other forms of international investment, since the 1970s. The United States was by far the major … absorbing much of the world's supply, especially in the late 1980s, and then reverted to its earlier net supplier role. Direct …

We use new international price measures we have developed for machinery and transport equipment to explain changes in …

of available data for the study of international trade and foreign direct investment. Data on values of imports and …

A substantial part of international differences in prices of individual products, both goods and services, can be …

World trade in services has recently been a little under $US2 trillion, about a quarter of world trade in goods. That …

.nber.org/data (International Trade Data, NBER-UN world trade data). Users must agree not to resell or distribute the data for 1984-2000. The data … are organized by the 4-digit Standard International Trade Classification, revision 2, with country codes similar to the … United Nations classification. This dataset updates the Statistics Canada World Trade Database as described in Feenstra …

impact of FDI in promoting the growth of host country exports and linkages to the outside world is clearer. The major role of … transfer of knowledge of world markets and of ways of fitting into worldwide production networks, not visible in standard …