Exploring New Ways of Measuring Multinational Enterprise Activity that Go Beyond the Use of Official Foreign Direct investment Data:

外国直接投资(FDI)数据传统上按投资者的直接来源地或目的地进行记录。这使得使用这些数据对于理解跨国公司的活动是有问题的，因为：(I)跨国公司经常通过中间司法管辖区转移资本，(Ii)离岸公司倒置可能会掩盖跨国公司的真正来源。为了进一步探索这些做法的范围以及它们如何影响我们对跨国企业活动的理解，这项拟议的博士研究将集中于研究经合组织国家以及几个非经合组织新兴市场国家的对外直接投资的情况。此外，这项拟议的研究还旨在推进一种衡量跨国公司活动的方法，该方法同时考虑了在途资本和公司倒置，并通过这样做，在我们如何衡量跨国公司活动方面向前迈出了潜在的一步。最近，经济合作与发展组织承认了两者对传统外国直接投资数据的重大扭曲影响，突显了这项研究的重要性。

Accounting for Capital in Transit and Corporate InversionsForeign direct investment (FDI) data has traditionally been recorded by the immediate origin or destination of the investor. This makes the use of such data problematic for understanding multinational enterprise (MNE) activity because: (i) MNEs frequently transit capital via intermediary jurisdictions and (ii) offshore corporate inversions may obscure the real origin of the MNE. To further explore the extent of these practices and how they affect our understanding of MNE activity, this proposed doctoral research will concentrate on examining the case of outward FDI from OECD countries as well as several non-OECD emerging market countries. This proposed research in addition aims to advance an approach for measuring MNE activity that accounts for both capital in transit and corporate inversions and by so doing, provide a potential step forward in how we measure MNE activity. Recently, the OECD has acknowledged the significant distortionary impacts of both on conventional FDI data, highlighting the importance of this research.