Nigel Pain

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the factors behind the continued growth of foreign direct investment and its wider consequences on home and host economies, and investigate the extent to which technology transfer from foreign-owned firms has affected the rate of technical progress within the German and UK economies.

TL;DR: This article explored the relative importance of host country labour institutions and agglomerations using an industry-level panel data set on the location of investments by US multinational firms in Europe and found that centripetal and centrifugal forces are both important.

TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical model of foreign direct investment and the extent to which the model can explain the level of outward direct investment by U.S. companies over the last two decades is examined.

TL;DR: The authors analyzed the factors determining the scale and location of Japanese foreign direct investment (FDI) over the 1980s using a pooled cross-section time-series annual data set covering investment in the individual EC countries and the United States and found that investment was significantly influenced by trade protection measures, and in particular by the level of anti-dumping actions initiated in the last decade.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the relationship between the location of production and the trade performance of 11 OECD countries since 1971, and augment a standard export demand model, which includes relative prices, market size and measures of relative innovation with indicators of both inward and outward investment levels.