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Lipsey, Robert E. - 2002

Fears that production abroad would cause home country exports and employment to fall have not been confirmed by evidence. Multinational operations have led to a shift by parent firms in the United States toward more capital- intensive and skill- intensive domestic production. However, that type...

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The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in International Capital Flows

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000

Direct investment has accounted for about a quarter of total international capital outflows in the 1990s and appears to have grown, relative to other forms of international investment, since the 1970s. The United States was by far the major source of direct investment outflows in the early...

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Report on the State of Available Data for the Study of International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2010

This report, prepared for the Committee on Economic Statistics of the American Economic Association, examines the state of available data for the study of international trade and foreign direct investment. Data on values of imports and exports of goods are of high quality and coverage, but price...

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Measuring the Location of Production in a World of Intangible Productive Assets, FDI, and Intrafirm Trade

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2008

As production comes to depend more on intangible productive assets, the location of production by multinational firms becomes increasingly ambiguous. The reason is that, within the firm, these assets have no clear geographical location, but only a nominal location determined by the firm's tax or...

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Foreign Direct Investment and the Operations of Multinational Firms : Concepts, History, and Data

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2001

The concept and measurement of foreign direct investment have changed over time, and what is measured by balance of payments flows and stocks is quite different from what is implied by theories of direct investment. The industrial distribution of stocks of FDI, the most widely available measure,...

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Foreign Direct Investors in Three Financial Crises

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2001

affiliates have switched their sales from host-country to export markets to a greater extent and for a longer period than other …

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Internationalized Production in World Output

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1995

Internationalized production, that is, production by multinational firms outside their home countries has increased over the last two decades, but it was still, in 1990, only about 7 percent of world output. The share was higher, at 15 percent in 'industry,' including manufacturing, trade,...

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U.S.-Owned Affiliates and Host-Country Exports

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1982

U.S.-owned manufacturing affiliates in foreign countries tended to become more export-oriented between 1966 and 1977 … affiliate activities in almost all cases. The most export-oriented were subsidiaries in machinery industries in Southeast Asia …, however, and high rates of affiliate export growth were associated with rapid growth of host country GDP and exports …

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