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 …

Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production … higher, the greater the production abroad by the firm's foreign affiliates. Japanese firms' behavior in this respect is … firms seem to allocate the more capital-intensive parts of their production to their foreign affiliates, mostly in high …

Foreign-owned establishments in the United States pay higher wages, on average, than domestically-owned establishments …. The foreign-owned establishments tend to be in higher-wage industries and also to pay higher wages within industries. They … in general and wages in domestically-owned establishments tend to be higher in states and industries in which foreign …

Foreign-owned establishments in the United States pay higher wages, on average, than domestically-owned establishments … wages in favor of foreign establishments remains even when these other determinants of wages are taken into account. Within … manufacturing, the extent of foreign ownership in an industry in a state had no impact on wages in 1987 when these other factors …

This paper examines the question of whether less-developed countries' (LDCs') experiences with foreign direct …

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 …

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 estimate international technology spillovers to U.S. manufacturing firms via imports and foreign direct investment …