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Invitation to participate in a panel entitled
The pitfalls of using FDI stock and flow data to measure multinational activity
to be presented at the Academy of International Business conference in Vancouver on June 24-26, 2014
The panel will feature presentations that will demonstrate, both theoretically and with case studies, that using FDI stocks and flow data derived from Balance of Payments statistics to measure multinational activity results
in misleading descriptions and potentially erroneous conclusions. This is because FDI flows and stocks (a) measure only financial flows, and not value added; (b) pick up only financial flows originating from the parent and neglect host country (local) financing;
(c) pick up only the first destination of the flow, not the ultimate one--yet because of tax havens the two may differ significantly.
If you are planning to attend the AIB conference, have done research on this topic, and would like to present it in this panel, please send asap to both of us at the address below a short abstract of your proposed presentation
as well any other documentation on the research you have done on this topic. You do not need to have finished papers at this stage.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Dylan Sutherland
Durham Business School
Jean-Francois Hennart
University of Pavia
Queens University Management School
Singapore Management University
Tilburg University