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 …

There are a number of theoretical reasons why FDI into a host country may depend on the FDI in proximate countries …. Such spatial interdependence has been largely ignored by the empirical FDI literature with only a couple recent papers … FDI models using data on US outbound FDI activity. We find that estimated relationships of traditional determinants of 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 …

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. Our estimates suggest a statistically significant average annual increase … of FDI activity for each additional year of a treaty which ranges from 2% to 8%, depending on the FDI activity measure …

This paper surveys the recent burgeoning literature that empirically examines the foreign direct investment (FDI …) decisions of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and the resulting aggregate location of FDI across the world. The contribution of … the paper is to evaluate what we can say with relative confidence about FDI as a profession, given the evidence, and what …

Increasing attention has been given to the impact of third countries on outbound FDI to a given host country. Here, we … consider potential third-country effects on inbound FDI. A simple model suggests two sources of such effects on a country …'s inbound FDI. First, it will tend to receive more FDI fromparent countries proximate to large third countries. Second, FDI from …

Theoretical models of foreign direct investment (FDI) have only recently begun to model the role of third countries …, and the empirical FDI literature has almost exclusively examined bilateral FDI data without recognizing the potential … interdependence between FDI decisions to alternative host countries. This paper uses spatial econometric techniques to examine the …