What Is Real and What Is Not in the Global FDI Network? /

Macro statistics on foreign direct investment (FDI) are blurred by offshore centers with enormous inward and outward investment positions. This paper uses several new data sources, both macro and micro, to estimate the global FDI network while disentangling real investment and phantom investment and...

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Glavni autor: Damgaard, Jannick
Daljnji autori: Elkjaer, Thomas, Johannesen, Niels
Format: Žurnal
Jezik:English
Izdano: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Serija:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/274
Online pristup:Full text available on IMF
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