direct investment (FDI) in a given host country is moderated significantly, and even in some cases eliminated, when MNEs have …

This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in services has grown significantly in recent years. Evidence of spatial relationships … in FDI decisions have been provided for goods manufacturing by utilizing physical distance-based measures of trade costs …. This paper investigates spatial interactions for services FDI using several distance measures, including physical distance …

and observed empirical characteristics: (i) most FDI is in the form of M&As, (ii) firms engaged in M&As seem to be 'market …

bilateral OECD outbound stocks of foreign direct investment (FDI) from 1991 to 2002. For this, we compile annual information on … bilateral tax treaties. Our findings indicate that the parent country's statutory corporate tax rate tends to foster outward FDI …, whereas the host country's statutory corporate and withholding tax rates are negatively associated with outward FDI …

M&A investments. Based on a novel firm-level dataset on German outbound FDI, we find evidence that location decisions of … finding is consistent with a (partial) capitalisation of taxes in the acquisition price when the FDI project takes the form of …

Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear … provide detailed evidence on the determinants of outward FDI from the US. FDI is higher in countries that are close to the US … substantial natural resource exports. Countries also attract more FDI if they have more medium-sized cities and primacy is not too …