Exploring New Ways of Measuring Multinational Enterprise Activity that Go Beyond the Use of Official Foreign Direct investment Data:

探索超越使用官方外国直接投资数据的衡量跨国企业活动的新方法：

• 批准号: 2198256
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Durham University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2198256
• 关键词: Exploring; New; Ways; Measuring; Multinational

Accounting for Capital in Transit and Corporate InversionsForeign direct investment (FDI) data has traditionally been recorded by the immediate origin or destination of the investor. This makes the use of such data problematic for understanding multinational enterprise (MNE) activity because: (i) MNEs frequently transit capital via intermediary jurisdictions and (ii) offshore corporate inversions may obscure the real origin of the MNE. To further explore the extent of these practices and how they affect our understanding of MNE activity, this proposed doctoral research will concentrate on examining the case of outward FDI from OECD countries as well as several non-OECD emerging market countries. This proposed research in addition aims to advance an approach for measuring MNE activity that accounts for both capital in transit and corporate inversions and by so doing, provide a potential step forward in how we measure MNE activity. Recently, the OECD has acknowledged the significant distortionary impacts of both on conventional FDI data, highlighting the importance of this research.

流转资本和企业倒置的核算外国直接投资 (FDI) 数据传统上按投资者的直接来源地或目的地记录。这使得使用此类数据来理解跨国企业 (MNE) 活动存在问题，因为：(i) 跨国企业经常通过中介司法管辖区转移资本；(ii) 离岸公司倒置可能会掩盖跨国企业的真正起源。为了进一步探讨这些做法的程度以及它们如何影响我们对跨国公司活动的理解，本拟议的博士研究将集中于研究经合组织国家以及一些非经合组织新兴市场国家的对外直接投资案例。此外，这项拟议的研究旨在提出一种衡量跨国公司活动的方法，该方法考虑了在途资本和企业倒置，并通过这样做，为我们如何衡量跨国公司活动提供了潜在的一步。最近，经合组织承认这两者对传统外国直接投资数据的严重扭曲影响，强调了这项研究的重要性。