Subject: Bundesbank-NBER Workshop: Microdata-based Research on Foreign Direct Investment, call for papers
From: Rob Shannon (rshannon@nber.org)
Date: Fri Oct 13 2006 - 15:00:16 EDT
Bundesbank-NBER Workshop: Microdata-based Research on Foreign Direct Investment
Cambridge, MA, March 29, 2007
The Deutsche Bundesbank and the National Bureau of Economic Research are
planning a one-day workshop on research on FDI using plant or company
microdata. There has been a history of such research based on the direct
investment surveys of the US Bureau of Economic Analysis and the surveys of
Swedish FDI conducted by the Research Institute of Industrial Economics,
and in recent years the Bundesbank has opened its facilities to researchers
studying FDI in and from Germany. Some microdata sets for other countries,
mostly short and confined to manufacturing, have been collected by the
World Bank.
These data have been used to study the impacts of FDI on parent firm and
home country employment, host country productivity and wages, the
international transmission of technology, the effects of corporate
taxation, and many other topics. The purpose of the workshop is to
acquaint participants with the data resources for such studies outside
their own countries, and with the techniques used by investigators in other
countries, and to encourage possible future joint projects incorporating
data from more than one country.
About six papers will be selected by the organizers for presentation at the
workshop, and each will have an assigned discussant. Travel and hotel
expenses for the presenters and discussants will be paid by the workshop
according to Bundesbank regulations (for European participants) and NBER
regulations (for U.S. participants). Participants will be invited to stay
for the International Trade and Investment Program Meeting on March 30 and
31, 2007.
Anyone interested in presenting a paper should send a draft or a detailed
abstract by November 15, 2006 to both of the two organizers at the
following locations:
Dr. Heinz Herrmann, Deutsche Bundesbank
<mailto:Heinz.Hermann@bundesbank.de>Heinz.Hermann@bundesbank.de
and
Robert E. Lipsey, NBER
<mailto:rlipsey@gc.cuny.edu>rlipsey@gc.cuny.edu
Authors of accepted papers will be notified by December 31, 2006.
