An increasingly important feature of global economic integration is trade in intermediate inputs
associated with the fragmentation of production across national borders. For some goods, …

Divestment by multinational enterprises is an important yet understudied phenomenon. The
few available estimates indicate that about a fifth of all foreign affiliates are divested every …

FDI plays a central role in managing global production networks, but FDI statistics also reflect
other factors, including tax avoidance, that make it difficult to differentiate between FDI for “…

Because of their networks of foreign affiliates and their well-established trade channels, US
multinational companies (MNCs) would be expected to play a leading role in the offshoring …

N 2002, the historical-cost position of foreign direct investment in the United States (FDIUS)
decreased for the first time since at least 1946, when the data were first compiled on an …

IKE previous articles in this series, this article examines international sales of services from
a dual perspective. It considers services trade not only in the conventional sense of exports …

This paper presents estimates of the carbon emissions of FDI from capital formation funded
by FDI and the production of foreign-controlled firms. The carbon intensity of capital formation …

Some foreign investment represents domestic funds that have been sent abroad before
returning to the domestic economy, called round-tripping. Traditional FDI statistics do not …

ACH year since 1990, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has published an article in
the SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS presenting and analyzing detailed data on US …

This paper uses the unique matched individual parent and affiliate data from the foreign
investment survey of the Bureau of Economic Analysis to examine how US firms of different …