directly test the hypothesis that FDI is a channel of knowledge spillovers for Japanese multinationals undertaking direct … investments in the United States. Using an original firm-level data set on Japanese firms' FDI and innovative activity find … evidence that FDI increases the flow of knowledge spillovers both from and to the investing Japanese firms …

Insurance Market: Characteristics and Trends -- The Japanese Insurance Market and Companies: Recent Trends -- The UK Insurance … Insurance Market in the Republic of Ireland -- China’s Insurance Industry: Developments and Prospects -- An Analysis of the …

Using a unique database on all Japanese manufacturing plants in the United States, we examine the relationship between …

Despite the rapid expansion of U.S.-China trade ties, the increase in U.S. FDI in China, and the expanding amount of ….S. multinationals in China. In this paper, we seek to correct four common misunderstandings by providing a statistical portrait of …

by U.S. firms in electronics and computer-related machinery. The U.S. firms were followed, in electronics, by Japanese … Japanese firms played somewhat different roles. U.S. firms' investments were always distributed more along the lines of U ….S. export comparative advantage, far from the previous patterns of the host countries. The industry distribution of Japanese …

China and India. US FDI is found to play a significant positive role in the exports of high-tech equipment from both rich … countries as well as China compared to other poor countries …