The papers listed below report results from research by academic economists who were granted access to BEA's business confidential data on multinational firms and cross-border trade in services as nonpaid special sworn research consultants of the Bureau. The papers are listed in reverse chronological order but can be sorted by the text in the columns of the table. The papers fall into the following research categories:
- Journal articles
- Book chapters
- Report chapters
- Working papers (unpublished papers issued under an institutional working paper series)
- Mimeos (unpublished papers not issued under an institutional working paper series)
The views expressed in these papers are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect views of the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis or the U.S. Department of Commerce.
| Title | Author(s) | Other bibliographic information | Year | Research category |
| An Empirical Assessment of the Factory Proportions Explanation of Multi-National Sales | S. Lael Brainard | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 4583 (December 1993) | 1993 | Working paper |
| The New Global Innovation Machine: A Look Inside the R&D Networks of U.S. Multinationals | Lee Branstetter, Britta Glennon, and J. Bradford Jensen | In C. Fritz Foley, James Hines, and David Wessel, eds., Global Goliaths: Multinational Corporations in the 21st Century, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, Spring 2021, 299-336 | 2021 | Book chapter |
| Disaggregating Multinationality: An Empirical Examination of Aggregation, Adaptation and Arbitrage Activities by US MNCs | Heather Berry and Aseem Kaul | Strategy Science 7, no. 2 (June 2022): 90-105 | 2022 | Journal article |
| Diverse Knowledge Exploration and Diffusion in MNCs | Heather Berry | Strategic Management Journal 44, no. 7 (July 2023): 1589-1615 | 2023 | Journal article |
| U.S. and Swedish Direct Investment and Exports | Magnus Blomstrom, Robert E. Lipsey, and Ksenia Kulchycky | In Robert E. Baldwin, ed., Trade Policy Issues and Empirical Analysis, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988, 257-302 | 1988 | Book chapter |
| Expansion Strategies of U.S. Multinational Firms | Gordon H. Hanson, Raymond J. Mataloni, and Matthew J. Slaughter | In Dani Rodrik and Susan Collins, ed., Brookings Trade Forum 2001, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2001, 245-294 | 2001 | Book chapter |
| Are U.S. Multinationals Exporting U.S. Jobs? | S. Lael Brainard, David A. Riker | In David Greenaway and Douglas Nelson, ed., Globalization and Labour Markets, Volume 2, Cheltenham, UK: Elgar, 2001, 410-26 | 2001 | Book chapter |
| Chains of Ownership, Regional Tax Competition, and Foreign Direct Investment | Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines, Jr. | In Heinz Herrmann and Robert Lipsey, eds., Foreign Direct Investment in the Real and Financial Sector of Industrial Countries, Wiesbaden, Germany: Springer Verlag, 2003, 61-98 | 2003 | Book chapter |
| The Intra-Firm Trade of U.S. MNCs: Findings and Implications for Models and Policy | Susan E. Feinberg and Michael P. Keane | In M. Blomstrom, E. Graham, and T. Moran, eds., The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Development: New Measures, New Outcomes, New Policy Approaches, Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics, 2005, 245-271 | 2005 | Book chapter |
| The Comovement of Returns and Investment Within the Multinational Firm | Mihir A. Desai and C. Fritz Foley | In Richard H. Clarida, Jeffrey A. Frankel, Fancesco Giavazzi, and Kenneth D. West, eds., NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2004, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006, 197-230 | 2006 | Book chapter |
| Firm Heterogeneity, Central Locations, and the Structure of Foreign Direct Investment | Stephen R. Yeaple | In Elhanan Helpman, Dalia Marin, and Thierry Verdier, eds., The Organization of Firms in a Global Economy, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008, 200-230 | 2008 | Book chapter |
| Profit Sharing Between Governments and Multinationals in Natural Resource Extraction: Evidence From a Firm-Level Panel | Margaret S. McMillan and Andrew R. Waxman | in Susan Collins, ed., Brookings Trade Forum 2007, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2008, 149-175 | 2008 | Book chapter |
| Facts and Fallacies about U.S. FDI in China | Lee Branstetter and C. Fritz Foley | In Robert C. Feenstra and Shang-Jin Wei, ed., China's Growing Role in World Trade, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010, 513-539 | 2010 | Book chapter |
| Regional Trade Integration and Multinational Firm Strategies | Pol Antras and C. Fritz Foley | In Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee, ed., Costs and Benefits of Regional Economic Integration, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2011, 208-240 | 2011 | Book chapter |
| Multinational Firms and the Structure of International Trade | Pol Antras and Stephen R. Yeaple | In Gita Gopinath, Elhanan Helpman, and Kenneth Rogoff, eds., Handbook of International Economics Volume 4, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2014, 55-130 | 2014 | Book chapter |
| The International Configurations of US Multinational Corporations | Heather Berry | In Juan Alcacer, Bruce Kogut, Catherine Thomas, and Bernard Yin Yeung, eds., Advances in Strategic Management: Geography, Location and Strategy, Volume 36, New York: Springer, 2017, 9-48 | 2017 | Book chapter |
| The IT Revolution and the Globalization of R&D | Lee G. Branstetter, Britta Glennon, and J. Bradford Jensen | In Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, eds., Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 19, Chicago: NBER and University of Chicago Press, 2018, 1-37 | 2018 | Book chapter |
| Do Multinational Firms Export Jobs? | Lindsay Oldenski | In C. Fritz Foley, James Hines, and David Wessel, eds., Global Goliaths: Multinational Corporations in the 21st Century, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, Spring 2021, 227-356 | 2021 | Book chapter |
| The New Global Innovation Machine: A Look Inside the R&D Networks of U.S. Multinationals | Lee Branstetter, Britta Glennon, and J. Bradford Jensen | In C. Fritz Foley, James Hines, and David Wessel, eds., Global Goliaths: Multinational Corporations in the 21st Century, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, Spring 2021, 299-336 | 2021 | Book chapter |
| Multinational Profit Shifting and Measures throughout Economic Accounts | Jennifer Bruner, Dylan G. Rassier, and Kim J. Ruhl | In Nadim Ahmad, Brent R. Moulton, J. David Richardson, and Peter van de Ven, eds. Challenges of Globalization in the Measurement of National Accounts, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, 153-208 | 2023 | Book chapter |
| An Empirical Assessment of the Proximity-Concentration Trade-off Between Multinational Sales and Trade | S. Lael Brainard | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 4580 (December 1993) | 1993 | Working paper |
| Trade Liberalization and 'Delocalization': New Evidence from Firm-Level Panel Data | Susan E. Feinberg, Michael P. Keane, and Mario F. Bognanno | Canadian Journal of Economics 31, no. 4 (October 1998): 749-777 | 1998 | Journal article |
| Do World Product Mandates Really Matter? | Susan E. Feinberg | Journal of International Business Studies 31, no. 1 (First Quarter 2000): 155-167 | 2000 | Journal article |
| Repatriation Taxes and Dividend Distortions | Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines, Jr. | National Tax Journal 54, no. 4 (December 2001): 829-851 | 2001 | Journal article |
| U.S.-Canada Trade Liberalization and MNC Production Location | Susan E. Feinberg and Michael P. Keane | Review of Economics and Statistics 83, no. 1 (February 2001): 118-132 | 2001 | Journal article |
| The Role of Skill Endowments in the Structure of U.S. Outward Foreign Direct Investment | Stephen Ross Yeaple | Review of Economics and Statistics 85, no. 3 (August 2003): 726-734 | 2003 | Journal article |
| Export Versus FDI with Heterogeneous Firms | Elhanan Helpman, Marc J. Melitz, and Stephen R. Yeaple | American Economic Review 94, no. 1 (March 2004): 300-316 | 2004 | Journal article |
| A Multinational Perspective on Capital Structure Choice and Internal Capital Markets | Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines, Jr. | Journal of Finance 59, no. 6 (December 2004): 2451-2488 | 2004 | Journal article |
| The Costs of Shared Ownership: Evidence From International Joint Ventures | Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines, Jr. | Journal of Financial Economics 73, no. 2 (August 2004): 323-374 | 2004 | Journal article |
| Foreign Direct Investment in a World of Multiple Taxes | Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines, Jr. | Journal of Public Economics 88, no. 12 (December 2004): 2727-2744 | 2004 | Journal article |
| Knowledge Spillovers and the Assignment of R&D Responsibilities to Foreign Subsidiaries | Susan E. Feinberg and Anil K. Gupta | Strategic Management Journal 25, no. 8-9 (August-September, 2004): 823-845 | 2004 | Journal article |
| International Licensing and the Strengthening of Intellectual Property Rights in Developing Countries During the 1990s | Walter Park and Douglas Lippoldt | OECD Economic Studies 2005, no. 1 (November 2005): 9-52 | 2005 | Journal article |
| Vertical Production Networks in Multinational Firms | Gordon H. Hanson, Raymond J. Mataloni, and Matthew J. Slaughter | Review of Economics and Statistics 87, no. 4 (November 2005): 664-678 | 2005 | Journal article |
| Dispelling Some Myths about Offshoring | Ann E. Harrison and Margaret S. McMillan | Academy of Management Perspectives 20, no. 4 (2006): 6-22 | 2006 | Journal article |
| Accounting for the Growth of MNC-based Trade using a Structural Model of U.S. MNCs | Susan E. Feinberg and Michael P. Keane | American Economic Review 96, no. 5 (December 2006): 1515-1558 | 2006 | Journal article |
| The Demand for Tax Haven Operations | Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines, Jr. | Journal of Public Economics 90, no. 3 (February 2006): 513-531 | 2006 | Journal article |
| Offshoring, Foreign Direct Investment, and the Structure of U.S. Trade | Stephen Ross Yeaple | Journal of the European Economic Association (Papers and Proceedings) 4, no. 2-3 (April-May 2006): 602-611 | 2006 | Journal article |
| Do Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Increase International Technology Transfer? Empirical Evidence from U.S. Firm-Level Panel Data | Lee Branstetter, Raymond Fisman, and C. Fritz Foley | Quarterly Journal of Economics 121, no. 1 (February 2006): 321-349 | 2006 | Journal article |
| Capital Controls, Liberalizations, and Foreign Direct Investment | Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines, Jr. | Review of Financial Studies 19, no. 4 (Winter 2006): 1399-1431 | 2006 | Journal article |
| Dividend Policy Inside the Multinational Firm | Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines, Jr. | Financial Management 36, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 5-26 | 2007 | Journal article |
| US Multinational Activity Abroad and US Jobs: Substitutes or Complements? | Ann E. Harrison, Margaret S. McMillan, and Clair Null | Industrial Relations 46, no. 2 (April 2007): 347-365 | 2007 | Journal article |
| Why Do Firms Hold So Much Cash? A Tax-Based Explanation | C. Fritz Foley, Jay C. Hartzell, Sheridan Titman, and Gary Twite | Journal of Financial Economics 86, no. 3 (December 2007): 579-607 | 2007 | Journal article |
| Advances in Logistics and the Growth of Intra-firm Trade: The Case of Canadian Affiliates of U.S. Multinationals, 1984-1995 | Michael P. Keane and Susan E. Feinberg | Journal of Industrial Economics 55, no. 4 (December 2007): 571-632 | 2007 | Journal article |
| Capital Structure with Risky Foreign Investment | Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines, Jr. | Journal of Financial Economics 88, no. 3 (June 2008): 534-553 | 2008 | Journal article |
| An Assignment Theory of Foreign Direct Investment | Volker Nocke and Stephen R. Yeaple | Review of Economic Studies 75, no. 2 (April 2008): 529-557 | 2008 | Journal article |
| Financial Constraints and Growth: Multinational and Local Firm Responses to Currency Depreciations | Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and Kristin J. Forbes | Review of Financial Studies 21, no. 6 (November 2008): 2857-2888 | 2008 | Journal article |
| MNC Subsidiaries and Country Risk: Internalization as a Safeguard Against Weak External Institutions | Susan E. Feinberg and Anil K. Gupta | Academy of Management Journal 52, no. 2 (April 2009): 381-399 | 2009 | Journal article |
| Domestic Effects of the Foreign Activities of US Multinationals | Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines, Jr. | American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 1, no. 1 (February 2009): 181-203 | 2009 | Journal article |
| Tariff Effects on MNC Decisions to Engage in Intra-firm and Arms-length Trade | Susan E. Feinberg and Michael P. Keane | Canadian Journal of Economics 42, no. 3 (August 2009): 900-929 | 2009 | Journal article |
| Measuring Network Effects on Trade: A Reexamination | Theresa M. Greaney | Japan and the World Economy 21, no. 3 (August 2009): 219-225 | 2009 | Journal article |
| Firm Heterogeneity and the Structure of U.S. Multinational Activity | Stephen Ross Yeaple | Journal of International Economics 78, no. 2 (July 2009): 206-212 | 2009 | Journal article |
| Multinational Firms, FDI Flows and Imperfect Capital Markets | Pol Antras, Mihir A. Desai, and C. Fritz Foley | Quarterly Journal of Economics 124, no. 3 (August 2009): 1171-1219 | 2009 | Journal article |
| Multinational Enterprises, International Trade, and Productivity Growth: Firm-Level Evidence from the United States | Wolfgang Keller and Stephen R. Yeaple | Review of Economics and Statistics 91, no. 4 (November 2009): 821-831 | 2009 | Journal article |
| Factor Prices, Factor Substitution and Exporting in US Manufacturing Affiliates Abroad | Maria Borga and Robert E. Lipsey | The World Economy 32, issue 1 (January 2009): 30-48 | 2009 | Journal article |
| U.S. Environmental Regulation and FDI: Evidence from a Panel of U.S. Based Multinational Firms | Rema Hanna | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2, no. 3 (July 2010): 158-89 | 2010 | Journal article |
| Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act | Dhammika Dharmapala, C. Fritz Foley, and Kristen J. Forbes | Journal of Finance 66, no. 3 (June 2011): 753-787 | 2011 | Journal article |
| Does Intellectual Property Rights Reform Spur Industrial Development? | Lee Branstetter, Raymond Fisman, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi | Journal of International Economics 83, no. 1 (January 2011): 27-36 | 2011 | Journal article |
| Offshoring Jobs? Multinationals and U.S. Manufacturing Employment | Ann E. Harrison and Margaret S. McMillan | Review of Economics and Statistics 93, no. 3 (August 2011): 857-875 | 2011 | Journal article |
| The Task Composition of Offshoring by U.S. Multinationals | Lindsay Oldenski | International Economics No. 131 (Q3 2012): 5-21 | 2012 | Journal article |
| Export Versus FDI and the Communication of Complex Information | Lindsay Oldenski | Journal of International Economics 87, no. 2 (July 2012): 312-322 | 2012 | Journal article |
| North-South Models of Intellectual Property Rights: An Empirical Critique | Walter G. Park | Review of World Economics 148, no. 1 (April 2012): 151-180 | 2012 | Journal article |
| Is U.S. Multinational Dividend Repatriation Policy Influenced by Reporting Incentives? | Jennifer L. Blouin, Linda K. Krull, and Leslie A. Robinson | The Accounting Review 87, no. 5 (September 2012): 1463-1491 | 2012 | Journal article |
| The Gravity of Knowledge | Wolfgang Keller and Stephen Ross Yeaple | American Economic Review 103, no. 4 (June 2013): 1414-1444 | 2013 | Journal article |
| Offshoring, Wages, and Employment: Theory and Evidence | Guru Sethupathy | European Economic Review 62 (August 2013): 73-97 | 2013 | Journal article |
| Domestic Institutions and the Taxing of Multinational Corporations | Nathan M. Jensen | International Studies Quarterly 57, no. 3 (September 2013): 440-448 | 2013 | Journal article |
| Location of Decision Rights Within Multinational Firms | Leslie A. Robinson and Phillip C. Stocken | Journal of Accounting Research 51, no. 5 (December 2013): 1261-1297 | 2013 | Journal article |
| Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity | C. Fritz Foley and William R. Kerr | Management Science 59, no. 7 (July 2013): 1529-1544 | 2013 | Journal article |
| When Do Firms Divest Foreign Operations? | Heather Berry | Organization Science 24, no. 1 (January-February 2013): 246-261 | 2013 | Journal article |
| Egalitarianism, Cultural Distance, and Foreign Direct Investment: A New Approach | Jordan I. Siegel, Amir N. Licht, and Shalom H. Schwartz | Organization Science 24, no. 4 (July-August 2013) | 2013 | Journal article |
| The Proximity-Concentration Tradeoff under Uncertainty | Natalia Ramondo, Veronica Rappoport, and Kim J. Ruhl | Review of Economic Studies 80, no. 41 (October 2013): 1582-1621 | 2013 | Journal article |
| The Differential Effects of Bilateral Tax Treaties | Bruce A. Blonigen, Lindsay Oldenski, and Nicholas Sly | American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 6, no. 2 (May 2014): 1-18 | 2014 | Journal article |
| Patent Laws, Product Lifecycle Lengths, and Multinational Activity | L. Kamran Bilir | American Economic Review 104, no. 7 (July 2014): 1979-2013 | 2014 | Journal article |
| Offshoring and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market | Lindsay Oldenski | Industrial and Labor Relations Review 67 (May 2014) | 2014 | Journal article |
| There Will Be Exports and Licensing: The Effects of Patent Rights and Innovation on Firm Sales | Kristie Briggs and Walter G. Park | Journal of International Trade and Economic Development 23, no. 8 (2014): 1112-1144 | 2014 | Journal article |
| Estimating the Impact of Trade and Offshoring on American Workers Using Current Population Surveys | Avraham Ebenstein, Ann Harrison, Margaret McMillan, and Shannon Phillips | Review of Economics and Statistics 96, no. 4 (October 2014): 581-595 | 2014 | Journal article |
| Global Integration and Innovation: Multi-Country Knowledge Generation within MNCs | Heather Berry | Strategic Management Journal 35, no. 6 (June 2014): 869-890 | 2014 | Journal article |
| Knowledge Inheritance in Global Industries: The Impact of Parent Firm Knowledge on the Performance of Foreign Subsidiaries | Heather Berry | Academy of Management Journal 58, no. 5 (October 2015): 1438-1458 | 2015 | Journal article |
| The Influence of Firm Global Supply Chains and Foreign Currency Undervaluations on U.S. Trade Disputes | J. Bradford Jensen, Dennis P. Quinn, and Stephen Weymouth | International Organization 69, no. 4 (Fall 2015): 913-947 | 2015 | Journal article |
| The Effect of Repatriation Tax Costs on U.S. Multinational Investment | Michelle Hanlon, Rebecca Lester, and Rodrigo Verdi | Journal of Financial Economics 116, no. 1 (April 2015): 179-196 | 2015 | Journal article |
| Diversification, Cost Structure, and the Risk Premium of Multinational Corporations | Jose L. Fillat, Stefania Garetto, and Lindsay Oldenski | Journal of International Economics 96, no. 1 (May 2015): 37-54 | 2015 | Journal article |
| Global Sourcing and Foreign Knowledge Seeking | Heather Berry and Aseem Kaul | Management Science 61, no. 5 (May 2015): 1052-1071 | 2015 | Journal article |
| U.S. Multinationals and Preferential Market Access | Emily Blanchard and Xenia Matschke | Review of Economics and Statistics 97, no. 4 (October 2015): 839-854 | 2015 | Journal article |
| Intellectual Property Protection and the Industrial Composition of Multinational Activity | Olena Ivus, Walter G. Park, and Kamal Saggi | Economic Inquiry 54, no. 2 (April 2016): 1068-1085 | 2016 | Journal article |
| Taxes and Leverage at Multinational Corporations | Michael Faulkender and Jason M. Smith | Journal of Financial Economics 122, no. 1 (October 2016): 1-20 | 2016 | Journal article |
| Intrafirm Trade and Vertical Fragmentation in U.S. Multinational Corporations | Natalia Ramondo, Veronica Rappoport, and Kim J. Ruhl | Journal of International Economics 98, no. 1 (January 2016): 51-59 | 2016 | Journal article |
| Trade Credit and Taxes | Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines, Jr. | Review of Economics and Statistics 98, no. 1 (March 2016): 132-139 | 2016 | Journal article |
| Replicating the Multinationality-Performance Relationship: Is There an S-Curve? | Heather Berry and Aseem Kaul | Strategic Management Journal 37, no. 11 (November 2016): 2275-2290 | 2016 | Journal article |
| The Distributional Consequences of Preferential Trade Liberalization: Firm-level Evidence | Leonardo Baccini, Pablo Pinto, and Stephen Weymouth | International Organization 71, no. 2 (Spring 2017): 373-395 | 2017 | Journal article |
| Managing Valuable Knowledge in Weak IP Protection Countries | Heather Berry | Journal of International Business Studies 48, no. 7 (September 2017): 787-807 | 2017 | Journal article |
| Patent Protection and the Composition of Multinational Activity: Evidence from U.S. Multinational Firms | Olena Ivus, Walter G. Park, and Kamal Saggi | Journal of International Business Studies 48, no. 7 (September 2017): 808-836 | 2017 | Journal article |
| Innovation and Production in the Global Economy | Costas Arkolakis, Natalia Ramondo, Andres Rodrigues-Clare, and Stephen Yeaple | American Economic Review 108, no. 8 (August 2018): 2128-2173 | 2018 | Journal article |
| Conflicting Transfer Pricing Incentives and the Role of Coordination | Jennifer L. Blouin, Leslie A. Robinson, and J. Seidman | Contemporary Accounting Research 35, no. 1 (Spring 2018): 87-116 | 2018 | Journal article |
| The Influence of Multiple Knowledge Networks on Innovation in Foreign Operations | Heather Berry | Organization Science 29, no. 5 (September-October 2018): 855-872 | 2018 | Journal article |
| Host-Country Financial Development and Multinational Activity | L. Kamran Bilir, Davin Chor, and Kalina Manova | European Economic Review 115 (June 2019): 192-220 | 2019 | Journal article |
| Made in the USA? A Study of Firm Responses to Domestic Production Incentives | Rebecca Lester | Journal of Accounting Research 57, no. 4 (September 2019): 1059-1114 | 2019 | Journal article |
| Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Asymmetric Taxes, Risk Taking, and Innovation | James Albertus, Brent Glover, and Oliver Levine | Journal of Monetary Economics 105 (August 2019): 24-40 | 2019 | Journal article |
| Misaccounting for Endogeneity: The Peril of Relying on the Heckman Two-Step Method without a Valid Instrument | Sarah E. Wolfolds and Jordan Siegel | Strategic Management Journal 40, no. 3 (March 2019): 432-462 | 2019 | Journal article |
| Understanding the Rise in Corporate Cash: Precautionary Saving or Foreign Taxes | Michael W. Faulkender, Kristine W. Hankins, and Mitchell A. Petersen | The Review of Financial Studies 32, no. 9 (September 2019): 3299–3334 | 2019 | Journal article |
| Internationalizing firm innovations: The influence of multimarket overlap in knowledge activities | Heather Berry | Journal of International Business Studies 51, no. 6 (August 2020): 963-985 | 2020 | Journal article |
| How Important is Regional vs. Global Scope? An Examination of U.S. Multinationals | Yujin Jeong and Jordan I. Siegel | Journal of International Business Studies 51, no. 7 (September 2020): 1142-1160 | 2020 | Journal article |
| Innovation in the Global Firm | L. Kamran Bilir and Eduardo Morales | Journal of Political Economy 128, no. 4 (April 2020): 1566-1625 | 2020 | Journal article |
| The Labor Market Effects of Offshoring by U.S. Multinational Firms | Bryan K. Kovak, Lindsay Oldenski, and Nicholas Sly | Review of Economic and Statistics 103, no. 2 (May 2021): 381-396 | 2021 | Journal article |
| Offshore Profit Shifting and Domestic Productivity Measurement | Fatih Guvenen, Raymond J. Mataloni, Jr., Dylan G. Rassier, and Kim J. Ruhl | American Economic Review 112, no. 6 (June 2022): 1848-1884 | 2022 | Journal article |
| Foreign Investment of U.S. multinationals: The Effect of Tax Policy and Agency Conflicts | James F. Albertus, Brent Glover, and Oliver Levine | Journal of Financial Economics 144, no. 1 (April 2022): 298-327 | 2022 | Journal article |
| Scale, Scope, and the International Expansion Strategies of Multiproduct Firms | Stephen Ross Yeaple | Review of International Economics 31, no. 4 (September 2023): 1385–1413 | 2023 | Journal article |
| How Do Restrictions on High-Skilled Immigration Affect Offshoring? Evidence from the H-1B Program | Britta Glennon | Management Science 70, no.2 (February 2024): 907-930 | 2024 | Journal article |
| Accounting for the Growth of MNC-based Trade using a Structural Model of U.S. MNCs | Susan E. Feinberg and Michael P. Keane | Mimeo (January 2003) | 2003 | Mimeo |
| The Demand for Tax Haven Operations | Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines, Jr. | Mimeo (March 2005) | 2005 | Mimeo |
| An Assignment Theory of Foreign Direct Investment | Volker Nocke and Stephen R. Yeaple | Mimeo (April 2006) | 2006 | Mimeo |
| Dividend Policy Inside the Multinational Firm | Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines, Jr. | Mimeo (February 2006) | 2006 | Mimeo |
| Offshoring Jobs? Multinationals and U.S. Manufacturing Employment | Ann E. Harrison and Margaret S. McMillan | Mimeo (March 2007) | 2007 | Mimeo |
| Multinational Enterprises, International Trade, and Productivity Growth: Firm-Level Evidence from the United States | Wolfgang Keller and Stephen R. Yeaple | Mimeo (February 2008) | 2008 | Mimeo |
| Domestic Effects of the Foreign Activities of US Multinationals | Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines, Jr. | Mimeo (May 2008) | 2008 | Mimeo |
| Intellectual Property Protection and the Industrial Composition of Multinational Activity | Olena Ivus, Walter G. Park, and Kamal Saggi | Mimeo (August 2011) | 2011 | Mimeo |
| Export Versus FDI and the Communication of Complex Information | Lindsay Oldenski | Mimeo (October 2011) | 2011 | Mimeo |
| The Gravity of Knowledge | Wolfgang Keller and Stephen Ross Yeaple | Mimeo (August 2012) | 2012 | Mimeo |
| Offshoring and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market | Lindsay Oldenski | Mimeo (December 2012) | 2012 | Mimeo |
| Egalitarianism, Cultural Distance, and Foreign Direct Investment: A New Approach | Jordan I. Siegel, Amir N. Licht, and Shalom H. Schwartz | Mimeo (June 2012) | 2012 | Mimeo |
| The Task Composition of Offshoring by U.S. Multinationals | Lindsay Oldenski | Mimeo (September 2012) | 2012 | Mimeo |
| The Proximity-Concentration Tradeoff under Uncertainty | Natalia Ramondo, Veronica Rappoport, and Kim J. Ruhl | Mimeo (February 2013) | 2013 | Mimeo |
| The Differential Effects of Bilateral Tax Treaties | Bruce A. Blonigen, Lindsay Oldenski, and Nicholas Sly | Mimeo (March 2013) | 2013 | Mimeo |
| Conflicting Transfer Pricing Incentives and the Role of Coordination | Jennifer L. Blouin, Leslie A. Robinson, and J. Seidman | Mimeo (October 2013) | 2013 | Mimeo |
| Patent Laws, Product Lifecycle Lengths, and Multinational Activity | L. Kamran Bilir | Mimeo (September 2013) | 2013 | Mimeo |
| The Effect of Repatriation Tax Costs on U.S. Multinational Investment | Michelle Hanlon, Rebecca Lester, and Rodrigo Verdi | Mimeo (May 2014) | 2014 | Mimeo |
| Diversification, Cost Structure, and the Risk Premium of Multinational Corporations | Jose L. Fillat, Stefania Garetto, and Lindsay Oldenski | Mimeo (February 2015) | 2015 | Mimeo |
| Host-Country Financial Development and Multinational Activity | L. Kamran Bilir, Davin Chor, and Kalina Manova | Mimeo (November 2018) | 2018 | Mimeo |
| Innovation in the Global Firm | L. Kamran Bilir and Eduardo Morales | Mimeo (November 2018) | 2018 | Mimeo |
| Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Asymmetric Taxes, Risk Taking, and Innovation | James Albertus, Brent Glover, and Oliver Levine | Mimeo (February 2019) | 2019 | Mimeo |
| Made in the USA? A Study of Firm Responses to Domestic Production Incentives | Rebecca Lester | Mimeo (February 2019) | 2019 | Mimeo |
| Market Power and Patent Rights | Walter G. Park and Padmashree Gehl-Sampath | In UNCTAD, ed., Trade and Development Report 2017, Chapter 6, Geneva: United Nations, 2017, 119-145 | 2017 | Report chapter |
| U.S. Multinationals and Competition from Low Wage Countries | David A. Riker and S. Lael Brainard | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 5959 (March 1997) | 1997 | Working paper |
| Expansion Strategies of U.S. Multinational Firms | Gordon H. Hanson, Raymond J. Mataloni, and Matthew J. Slaughter | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 8433 (August 2001) | 2001 | Working paper |
| Firm-Specific Resources, Financial-Market Development and the Growth of U.S. Multinationals | Susan Feinberg and Gordon Phillips | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 9252 (October 2002) | 2002 | Working paper |
| A Multinational Perspective on Capital Structure Choice and Internal Capital Markets | Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines, Jr. | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 9715 (May 2003) | 2003 | Working paper |
| Vertical Production Networks in Multinational Firms | Gordon H. Hanson, Raymond J. Mataloni, and Matthew J. Slaughter | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 9723 (May 2003) | 2003 | Working paper |
| Capital Controls, Liberalizations, and Foreign Direct Investment | Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines, Jr. | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 10337 (March 2004) | 2004 | Working paper |
| Factor Prices, Factor Substitution and Exporting in US Manufacturing Affiliates Abroad | Maria Borga and Robert E. Lipsey | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 10442 (April 2004) | 2004 | Working paper |
| Financial Constraints and Growth: Multinational and Local Firm Responses to Currency Depreciations | Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and Kristin J. Forbes | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 10545 (June 2004) | 2004 | Working paper |
| The Comovement of Returns and Investment Within the Multinational Firm | Mihir A. Desai and C. Fritz Foley | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 10785 (September 2004) | 2004 | Working paper |
| Do Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Increase International Technology Transfer? Empirical Evidence from U.S. Firm-Level Panel Data | Lee Branstetter, Raymond Fisman, and C. Fritz Foley | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 11516 (August 2005) | 2005 | Working paper |
| Dispelling Some Myths about Offshoring | Ann E. Harrison and Margaret S. McMillan | MPRA Paper No. 15615 (June 2006) | 2006 | Working paper |
| Why Do Firms Hold So Much Cash? A Tax-Based Explanation | C. Fritz Foley, Jay C. Hartzell, Sheridan Titman, and Gary Twite | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 12649 (October 2006) | 2006 | Working paper |
| Capital Structure with Risky Foreign Investment | Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines, Jr. | Office of Tax Policy Research Working Paper Series WP 2006-2 (May 2006) | 2006 | Working paper |
| Firm Heterogeneity and Weak Intellectual Property Rights | Stanley Watt | International Monetary Fund Working Paper No. 07/161 (July 2007) | 2007 | Working paper |
| Multinational Firms, FDI Flows and Imperfect Capital Markets | Pol Antras, Mihir A. Desai, and C. Fritz Foley | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 12855 (January 2007) | 2007 | Working paper |
| Profit Sharing Between Governments and Multinationals in Natural Resource Extraction: Evidence From a Firm-Level Panel | Margaret S. McMillan and Andrew R. Waxman | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 13332 (August 2007) | 2007 | Working paper |
| Facts and Fallacies about U.S. FDI in China | Lee Branstetter and C. Fritz Foley | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 13470 (October 2007) | 2007 | Working paper |
| Global Production and Trade in the Knowledge Economy | Wolfgang Keller and Stephen R. Yeaple | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 14626 (December 2008) | 2008 | Working paper |
| Regional Trade Integration and Multinational Firm Strategies | Pol Antras and C. Fritz Foley | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 14891 (April 2009) | 2009 | Working paper |
| Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act | Dhammika Dharmapala, C. Fritz Foley, and Kristen J. Forbes | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 15023 (June 2009) | 2009 | Working paper |
| Estimating the Impact of Trade and Offshoring on American Workers Using Current Population Surveys | Avraham Ebenstein, Ann Harrison, Margaret McMillan, and Shannon Phillips | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 15107 (June 2009) | 2009 | Working paper |
| Does Intellectual Property Rights Reform Spur Industrial Development? | Lee Branstetter, Raymond Fisman, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi | Stanford Center for International Development Working Paper no. 423 (August 2010) | 2010 | Working paper |
| Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity | C. Fritz Foley and William R. Kerr | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 173369 (August 2011) | 2011 | Working paper |
| US Multinational Activity Abroad and US Jobs: Substitutes or Complements? | Ann E. Harrison, Margaret S. McMillan, and Clair Null | MPRA Paper No. 36277 (February 2012) | 2012 | Working paper |
| Trade Credit and Taxes | Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines, Jr. | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 18107 (May 2012) | 2012 | Working paper |
| Multinational Firms and the Structure of International Trade | Pol Antras and Stephen R. Yeaple | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 18775 (February 2013) | 2013 | Working paper |
| Scale, Scope, and the International Expansion Strategies of Multiproduct Firms | Stephen Ross Yeaple | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 19166 (June 2013) | 2013 | Working paper |
| U.S. Multinationals and Preferential Market Access | Emily Blanchard and Xenia Matschke | University of Trier, Research Papers in Economics No. 8/10 (August 2013) | 2013 | Working paper |
| The Influence of Firm Global Supply Chains and Foreign Currency Undervaluations on U.S. Trade Disputes | J. Bradford Jensen, Dennis P. Quinn, and Stephen Weymouth | US Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies Paper No. CES-WP- 14-04 (January 2014) | 2014 | Working paper |
| Taxes and Leverage at Multinational Corporations | Michael Faulkender and Jason M. Smith | Western Finance Association, 2014, NBER Summer Institute, Corporate Finance Workshop, 2014, Robert H. Smith School Research Paper | 2014 | Working paper |
| Intrafirm Trade and Vertical Fragmentation in U.S. Multinational Corporations | Natalia Ramondo, Veronica Rappoport, and Kim J. Ruhl | CEP Discussion Paper No. 1371 (September 2015) | 2015 | Working paper |
| Offshore Profit Shifting and Domestic Productivity Measurement | Fatih Guvenen, Raymond J. Mataloni, Jr., Dylan G. Rassier, and Kim J. Ruhl | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 12855 (January 2017) | 2017 | Working paper |
| Innovation and Production in the Global Economy | Costas Arkolakis, Natalia Ramondo, Andres Rodrigues-Clare, and Stephen Yeaple | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 18972 (May 2017) | 2017 | Working paper |
| The Labor Market Effects of Offshoring by U.S. Multinational Firms | Bryan K. Kovak, Lindsay Oldenski, and Nicholas Sly | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 23947 (October 2017) | 2017 | Working paper |
| Knowledge Transfer Abroad: The Role of U.S. Inventors within Global R&D Networks | Lee Branstetter, Britta Glennon, and J. Bradford Jensen | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 24453 (March 2018) | 2018 | Working paper |
| Multinational Profit Shifting and Measures throughout Economic Accounts | Jennifer Bruner, Dylan G. Rassier, and Kim J. Ruhl | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 24915 (August 2018) | 2018 | Working paper |
| Multinational Expansion in Time and Space | Stephania Garetto, Lindsay Oldenski, and Natalia Ramondo | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 25804 (May 2019) | 2019 | Working paper |
| How Do Restrictions on High-Skilled Immigration Affect Offshoring? Evidence from the H-1B Program | Britta Glennon | National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 27538 (July 2020) | 2020 | Working paper |