This essay addresses the recent deceleration in the pace of global FDI and asks whether multinational corporations are … actually in retreat. It identifies the forces that are slowing the expansion of FDI, and sketches the role that multinational …

This essay addresses the recent deceleration in the pace of global FDI and asks whether multinational corporations are … actually in retreat. It identifies the forces that are slowing the expansion of FDI, and sketches the role that multinational …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in services has grown significantly in recent years. Evidence of spatial relationships … in FDI decisions have been provided for goods manufacturing by utilizing physical distance-based measures of trade costs …. This paper investigates spatial interactions for services FDI using several distance measures, including physical distance …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in services has grown significantly in recent years. Evidence of spatial relationships … in FDI decisions have been provided for goods manufacturing by utilizing physical distance-based measures of trade costs …. This paper investigates spatial interactions for services FDI using several distance measures, including physical distance …

Relying on a large foreign direct investment (FDI) transaction level dataset, unique both in terms of disaggregation … likely to respond differently to policies intended to attract FDI. …

The effects of bilateral tax treaties on FDI activity have been unexplored, despite significant ongoing activities by ….S. inbound and outbound FDI over the period 1966-1992. Robust to a wide variety of alternative specifications, we find no … evidence that bilateral tax treaties increase FDI activity, contrary to OECD-stated goals for such treaties. In fact, our …

direct investment (FDI). Of particular interest is the fact that the tax rates used under these treaties are gradually … a two-country setting with two-way capital flows. In particular, only part of FDI is immediately reversible. As the … reductions generate an increase in bilateral FDI. As countries increase the stock of capital in one another, further reductions …