from wholly foreign-owned FDI. The results shed new light on the efficacy of FDI performance requirements as well as on … foreign direct investment policy as China entered the WTO in the year 2002. Accounting for a quarter of all international … joint ventures worldwide, we first show that foreign investors choose Chinese partners that are relatively large, productive …

performance simply because foreign investors acquired more promising Japanese firms than Japanese investors did. In order to … performance than firms not acquired by foreigners. Both results from unmatched samples and matched samples show that foreign … acquisition target based on its productivity level, profitability and other characteristics and whether the performance of …

seek out joint ventures from those that do not. The findings suggest that firms with little experience of foreign …

. Finally, in contrast to the crisis period, the effect of foreign ownership and linkages on establishment performance was … on the role of foreign ownership. Using a worldwide establishment panel dataset, we investigate how multinational …

actively encouraging inflows of direct investment. However, concerns remain that reliance on foreign multinationals may be a … risky development strategy as foreign firms are likely to be less rooted in the local economy and may be quicker to close … down production. This paper asks whether foreign owners are more likely to close plants than domestic owners. In Indonesia …

This paper examines the recent upsurge in foreign acquisitions of U.S. firms, specifically focusing on acquisitions …-acquisition performance of publicly traded U.S. firms that have been acquired by firms from emerging markets over the period 1980-2007. Our …

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 …

This paper analyzes the determinants of partial ownership of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational firms and, in … regulatory and tax changes, gave rise to the sharply declining propensity of American firms to organize their foreign operations …

This paper examines the effects on technology transfer and spillovers deriving from ownership sharing of foreign … differ with the degree of ownership in the FDI? Our results show that foreign establishments have comparable high levels of … labor productivity and that domestic establishments benefit from spillovers. However, the degree of foreign ownership does …