Book

Brookings Trade Forum 2007

Foreign Direct Investment

Susan M. Collins
Release Date: May 15, 2008

Tentative contents include: • China and FDI John Whalley (University of Western Ontario) and Xian Xin (China Agricultural University) • Productivity and Taxes as Drivers of FDI Assaf Razin (Tel...

Tentative contents include: • China and FDI John Whalley (University of Western Ontario) and Xian Xin (China Agricultural University) • Productivity and Taxes as Drivers of FDI Assaf Razin (Tel Aviv University and Cornell University) and Efraim Sadka (Tel Aviv University) • How to Investigate the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Development and Use the Results to Guide Policy Theodore Moran (Georgetown University) • Profit Sharing between Governments and Multinationals in Natural Resource Extraction: Evidence from a Firm-Level Panel Margaret McMillan (Tufts University) and Andrew Waxman (World Bank) • Returns on FDI: Does the U.S. Really Do Better? Barry Bosworth, Susan M. Collins, and Gabriel Chodorow-Reich (Brookings)

Author

Susan M. Collins is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution and a professor of economics at Georgetown University. Her publications focus on various dimensions of economic policy and performance for developing countries.