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 …

Since 1980, foreign investors have timed their purchases and sales of U.S. Treasurys to yield particularly low returns … horizon. In comparison, the IRRs achieved by domestic investors are at least 1% higher, while the IRRs achieved by the Federal … Reserve are similarly low. Our results are consistent with theories where foreign investors are price-inelastic buyers of safe …

Foreign investors' changing appetite for risk-taking have been shown to be a key determinant of the global financial … frictions, and who act as global intermediaries in that they take on foreign asset risk. In this setup, an exogenous increase in … premia and lower global asset values. Moreover, when U.S. uncertainty rises, the exchange rate in the foreign country vis …

features costly coordination failures by foreign investors which can sometimes be avoided by suitably tailored CCOs. The …

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 … 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 …

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 …

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