Japanese firms that were acquired by foreign firms improves after the acquisition. In our previous study for the Japanese …) and profit rates than Mamp;As by domestic firms. However, it may argued that firms acquired by foreign firms showed better … performance simply because foreign investors acquired more promising Japanese firms than Japanese investors did. In order to …

We quantify foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers by comparing changes in total factor productivity (TFP) among … domestic plants in districts that attracted a large greenfield foreign plant and districts where greenfield FDI was licensed … greenfield foreign plant. Over the four years starting with the year of the opening, TFP of domestic plants is 8% higher in …

In this paper, we estimate the impact of increasing costs on foreign producers following a withdrawal of the United …. First, we assume that the United Kingdom unilaterally imposes tighter restrictions on foreign direct investment (FDI) from … fall in foreign investment and production by U.K. firms. The United Kingdom increases international lending, which finances …

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 …

data from 1989-2009. We compute the number of employees of foreign establishments in each of Vietnam's provinces for each … for households there if they do not have a member employed by the foreign enterprises, with only modest gains for … households who do have a member employed by the foreign enterprises. These estimates may reflect composition effects, however …

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 …, and often subsidized to set up their joint venture. Second, we document benefits from foreign technology in terms of …