Measuring multinational production with foreign direct investment statistics: A survey of challenges and recent developments
综述了国际外国直接投资统计的最新进展，这些进展解决了FDI数据受金融动机干扰、难以准确反映跨国生产的问题，并指导应用研究者如何在实际中改进使用。
Abstract Foreign direct investment (FDI) statistics are frequently used to proxy multinational production and activities of multinational enterprises (MNEs). Yet, FDI statistics have been subject to critique because FDI is also driven by financial motives that are barely related to real production activities. In this paper, we survey recent advancements in the compilation of international FDI statistics that address those challenges. We discuss how those improved FDI statistics help to tighten the relation between FDI data and multinational production and provide guidance to applied researchers how to implement this in practice.