Foreign Direct Investment: Its Impact on US Jobs, Research, and Economic Growth

Date

September 19, 2013, 12:00 AM EDT
Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC

Event Summary

The Peterson Institute released of its two latest studies on the impact of inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI) on the US economy on September 19, 2013. The two books, Foreign Direct Investment in the United States: Benefits, Suspicions, and Risks with Special Attention to FDI from China and Outward Foreign Direct Investment and US Exports, Jobs, and R&D: Implications for US Policy, are the culmination of important twin research projects on FDI by Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Lindsay Oldenski, and Theodore Moran. Their work analyzes and addresses the effect of overseas investment by US firms on US jobs and research and development, as well as the incentives created by the US tax code for corporate offshoring decisions, and the cost-benefit analyses of foreign investment in the United States.

Event Materials

Agenda [pdf]

Presentations
Panel 1: Lindsay Oldenski
[pdf] | Gary Clyde Hufbauer [pdf]
Panel 2: Lindsay Oldenski [pdf] | Theodore Moran [pdf]
Panel 3: Gary Clyde Hufbauer [pdf] | Theodore Moran [pdf]

Book: Foreign Direct Investment in the United States: Benefits, Suspicions, and Risks with Special Attention to FDI from China
Policy Analyses in International Economics 100
Theodore H. Moran and Lindsay Oldenski

Book: Outward Foreign Direct Investment and US Exports, Jobs, and R&D: Implications for US Policy
Policy Analyses in International Economics 101
Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Theodore H. Moran, and Lindsay Oldenski, assisted by Martin Vieiro

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