Improving French Competitiveness through American Investment following World War II
本文利用法国央行企业资料，揭示二战后法国公司主动寻求美国投资以提升竞争力的事实，挑战了法国反美情绪和限制政策的普遍印象。
Drawing on corporate materials from the Banque de France, this article reveals a fact that is rarely raised in the study of foreign investment in France: among American investment in France, there are many cases in which French companies took the initiative in seeking American investment. Not all French companies were hostile to U.S. enterprises, even during the upsurge of French anti-Americanism, and the French Fifth Republic's restrictive policies toward American investment were not as rigorous as they might have appeared. Their major objective was to increase French competitiveness.