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 …

Japanese firms that were acquired by foreign firms improves after the acquisition. In our previous study for the Japanese …) and profit rates than M&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 …

This paper studies international joint ventures, where foreign direct investment is performed by a foreign and a … ventures in China from 1998 to 2007--roughly a quarter of all international joint ventures in the world--we find, first, that … Chinese firms chosen to be partners of foreign investors tend to be larger, more productive, and more likely subsidized than …

Despite the recent rapid development and greater openness of China's economy, FDI flows between China and … technologically advanced countries are relatively small in both directions. We assess global capital flows in light of China's quid … model to data. We also find large welfare gains for China--and welfare losses for its FDI partners--from quid pro quo …

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 …

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 …