Advisors: Ramon Castillo Committee members: Madhu Mohanty; Sunil Sapra.
Özet:
This study examines the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the United States economy. Many papers discuss individual spatial and country specific FDI attributes related to FDI growth, This study instead, looks at FDI overall, in a more realistic sense for the U.S. economy. A panel regression with fixed effects in used to determine the correlation between FDI invested across 23 industries and the U.S. overall. Data was collected from 1997 to 2005, and the results indicate that FDI does in fact correlate with higher industry output.