features costly coordination failures by foreign investors which can sometimes be avoided by suitably tailored CCOs. The …

We estimate and attempt to explain the evolution of the taxes paid by U.S. multinationals on their foreign profits … after-tax returns. Foreign taxes fell abruptly after the first Gulf War. In sectors other than oil, the effective foreign … havens. The low foreign taxes paid by U.S. multinationals can explain half of the U.S. cross-border return differential …

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) estimates the return on investments of foreign subsidiaries of U ….S. multinational companies over the period 1982--2006 averaged 9.4 percent annually after taxes; U.S. subsidiaries of foreign … foreign and domestic locations. Used abroad, it generates profits for foreign subsidiaries with no foreign direct investment …

Japanese firms that were acquired by foreign firms improves after the acquisition. In our previous study for the Japanese …) and profit rates than M&As by domestic firms. However, it may argued that firms acquired by foreign firms showed better … performance simply because foreign investors acquired more promising Japanese firms than Japanese investors did. In order to …

We quantify foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers by comparing changes in total factor productivity (TFP) among … domestic plants in districts that attracted a large greenfield foreign plant and districts where greenfield FDI was licensed … greenfield foreign plant. Over the four years starting with the year of the opening, TFP of domestic plants is 8% higher in …

This paper studies international joint ventures, where foreign direct investment is performed by a foreign and a … ventures in China from 1998 to 2007--roughly a quarter of all international joint ventures in the world--we find, first, that … Chinese firms chosen to be partners of foreign investors tend to be larger, more productive, and more likely subsidized than …