Facts and Fallacies about U.S. FDI in China

Lee Branstetter, C. Fritz Foley

NBER Working Paper No. 13470
Issued in October 2007

---- Acknowledgments ----

The authors thank Rob Feenstra, Nicholas Lardy, Shang-Jin Wei, Stephen Yeaple, and Bill Zeile for helpful comments and suggestions. Some sections of the paper draw upon earlier work by the authors, especially Branstetter and Lardy (2006). The statistical analysis of unpublished data on U.S. multinational companies reported in this study was conducted at the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis under arrangements that maintained legal confidentiality requirements. Views expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Bureau of Economic Analysis or the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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