Major output collapses are costly and frequent in the developing world. Using cross-country data, we classify five …

Macro statistics on foreign direct investment (FDI) are blurred by offshore centers withenormous inward and outward … investment positions. This paper uses several new datasources, both macro and micro, to estimate the global FDI network while … percent of global FDI. Ignoringphantom investment and allocating real investment to ultimate investors increases …

Over the past two decades, the growth rate of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from developing and transition … of outward FDI on domestic investment in developing countries. Using data from 121 developing and transition economies … over the period 1990–2010, the results suggest that FDI outflows negatively impact the rate of domestic investment …

This paper studies whether FDI firms employ more workers than domestic firms for each dollar of assets. Using the Orbis … per asset than FDI firms. The result remains robust across individual industries in the case study of the United Kingdom …

This paper addresses three types of geographical decoupling in foreign direct investment (FDI), i.e., challenges when … using traditional FDI data as a proxy for real economic integration between economies: (i) large bilateral asymmetries … between inward and outward FDI, (ii) the role of special purpose entities (SPEs), and (iii) the effect of moving from …

The local sourcing of intermediate products is one the main channels for foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers …

(MNEs) has become more pressing. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) statistics, which capture financing aspects of MNEs, have … practice into question. This paper revisits the main objections to the use of FDI as a proxy for multinational production …, explores counterarguments, and provides guidance on the use of FDI statistics to measure multinational production …