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

在途资本和公司投资的会计外国直接投资（FDI）数据传统上是按投资者的直接来源地或目的地记录的。这使得使用这些数据理解跨国企业的活动有问题，因为：（一）跨国企业经常通过中间管辖区转移资本，（二）离岸公司倒置可能掩盖跨国企业的真实的起源。为了进一步探讨这些做法的程度，以及它们如何影响我们对跨国公司活动的理解，这项拟议的博士研究将集中于研究从经合组织国家以及几个非经合组织新兴市场国家的外向外国直接投资的情况。此外，这项拟议的研究旨在推进一种方法来衡量跨国公司的活动，占在途资本和企业反转，并通过这样做，提供了一个潜在的一步，我们如何衡量跨国公司的活动。最近，经合组织承认，这两个因素对传统的外国直接投资数据产生了重大的扭曲影响，突出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.