weakness in economic activity, particularly investment, has been the primary restraint on trade growth, accounting for over 80 …

Macro statistics on foreign direct investment (FDI) are blurred by offshore centers with enormous inward and outward … investment positions. This paper uses several new data sources, both macro and micro, to estimate the global FDI network while … disentangling real investment and phantom investment and allocating real investment to ultimate investor economies. We find that …

This paper explores, from an investment-saving perspective, the factors underlying the persistent widening of the … current account surplus in the Netherlands since the early 1980s. Standard intertemporal models, even appropriately extended …

investment, which has probably exacerbated the cyclicality of the economy. The expected reform of the pension system is likely to …

determining a multinational’s choice between exports and foreign investment. The hypotheses from the model are tested for the … multilateral investment agreement that could function as an agency of restraint …

Over the past two decades, the growth rate of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from developing and transition …, it is important to assess how domestic investment responds to such outflows. This study empirically examines the effects … of outward FDI on domestic investment in developing countries. Using data from 121 developing and transition economies …

The literature on the investment technology of foreign versus domestic investors has inconclusive results. This paper …