@techreport{NBERw13470, title = "Facts and Fallacies about U.S. FDI in China", author = "Lee Branstetter and C. Fritz Foley", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "13470", year = "2007", month = "October", URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w13470", abstract = {Despite the rapid expansion of U.S.-China trade ties, the increase in U.S. FDI in China, and the expanding amount of economic research exploring these developments, a number of misconceptions distort the popular understanding of U.S. multinationals in China. In this paper, we seek to correct four common misunderstandings by providing a statistical portrait of several aspects of U.S. affiliate activity in the country and placing this activity in its appropriate economic context.}, }