Foreign Investment as a Geopolitical Strategy: Chinese FDI in the United States

• In Event: Foreign Direct Investment

Brief Overview

Do multinational firms invest to primarily advance their home country’s geopolitical interests? We model Chinese FDI into the U.S. to estimate the effects of strategic considerations on Chinese firms’ location decisions, using project-level data.

Authors

• Aycan Katitas, University of Virginia-Main Campus

• Sonal S. Pandya, University of Virginia-Main Campus

• Soo Yeon Kim, National University of Singapore