Foreign Investment in Iran: Multinational Firms’ Compliance with U.S. Sanctions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Adesnik ◽  
Saeed Ghasseminejad
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Multinational Firms

scholarly journals US Environmental Regulation and FDI: Evidence from a Panel of US-Based Multinational Firms

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rema Hanna
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Multinational Firms ◽  
Clean Air Act ◽  
Econometric Models ◽  
Substantial Variation ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Regulated Firms ◽  
Firm Level Data ◽  
Clean Air

This paper measures the response of US-based multinationals to the Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA). Using a panel of firm-level data over the period 1966–1999, I estimate the effect of regulation on a multinational's foreign production decisions. The CAAA induced substantial variation in the degree of regulation faced by firms, allowing for the estimation of econometric models that control for firm-specific characteristics and industrial trends. I find that the CAAA caused regulated multinational firms to increase their foreign assets by 5.3 percent and their foreign output by 9 percent. Heavily regulated firms did not disproportionately increase foreign investment in developing countries. (JEL F23, K32, L51, Q52, Q53, Q58)

Promoting Foreign Direct Investment in the Indo-Pacific Region: Scope and Opportunities

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 490-509
Author(s):  
Durairaj Kumarasamy ◽  
Prabir De
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Multinational Firms ◽  
Global Value Chain ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
International Sourcing ◽  
The World ◽  
Investment Barriers

Indo-Pacific construct has picked up a motivating pace in recent years. Several countries across the world have shown their interest in joining the Indo-Pacific region. Indo-Pacific region has been the world’s leading source and destination of foreign investment. This article analyses the trends in investment, bilateral and multilateral investment engagements and investment barriers and presents a way to promote foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Indo-Pacific region. It also examines India’s investment relations with some of the Indo-Pacific countries. Further, it looks into the inter-linkages between FDI and global value chain, given that multinational firms play a significant role in bringing international sourcing, technology sharing, and production networking across countries.

scholarly journals Global Production with Export Platforms*

2016 ◽  
Vol 132 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Tintelnot
Keyword(s):  
General Equilibrium ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Multinational Firms ◽  
Multinational Enterprise ◽  
Fixed Costs ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Multinational Production ◽  
Foreign Affiliates

Abstract Most international commerce is carried out by multinational firms, which use their foreign affiliates both to serve the market of the host country and to export to other markets outside the host country. In this article, I examine the determinants of multinational firms’ location and production decisions and the welfare implications of multinational production. The few existing quantitative general equilibrium models that incorporate multinational firms achieve tractability by assuming away export platforms—that is, they do not allow foreign affiliates of multinationals to export—or by ignoring fixed costs associated with foreign investment. I develop a quantifiable multicountry general equilibrium model, which tractably handles multinational firms that engage in export platform sales and that face fixed costs of foreign investment. I first estimate the model using German firm-level data to uncover the size and nature of costs of multinational enterprise and show that the fixed costs of foreign investment are large. Second, I calibrate the model to data on trade and multinational production for twelve European and North American countries. Counterfactual analysis reveals that multinationals play an important role in transmitting technological improvements to foreign countries and that the pending Canada-EU trade and investment agreement could divert a sizable fraction of the production of EU multinationals from the U.S. to Canada.

Property rights institutions, foreign investment, and the valuation of multinational firms

2019 ◽  
Vol 134 (1) ◽  
pp. 214-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leming Lin ◽  
Atanas Mihov ◽  
Leandro Sanz ◽  
Detelina Stoyanova
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Multinational Firms

Patterns of Innovation among Multinational Firms

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick J. W. Egan
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Multinational Firms ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
The Core ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Econometric Tests ◽  
Empirical Context

This chapter chronicles the spread of innovation-intensive forms of foreign investment. It is primarily descriptive, and provides the empirical context for the econometric tests in subsequent chapters. The multifaceted concept of innovation is investigated in detail in this chapter. Historical patterns of multinational innovation are presented, followed by more recent empirical trends. The evolving sectoral distribution of FDI in developing countries is examined, as are the potential implications for innovative activities. The chapter extensively details patterns of multinational innovation, through firm surveys and aggregated country level data. Additionally, the extent of innovation spillovers and linkages with economic actors in host countries is considered. Among the core findings in this chapter are that innovation is becoming more common in developing countries, innovation is concentrated in specific regions, and service sector investment represents an increasing share of investment in emerging economies. Firms in some sectors are also more likely to embed in host economies than firms in other sectors.

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