01911cas a2200325 a 4500 AALejournalIMF018072 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781484329658 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Damgaard, Jannick. The Global FDI Network : Searching for Ultimate Investors / Jannick Damgaard, Thomas Elkjaer. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017. 1 online resource (25 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper addresses three types of geographical decoupling in foreign direct investment (FDI), id est, challenges when using traditional FDI data as a proxy for real economic integration between economies: (i) large bilateral asymmetries between inward and outward FDI, (ii) the role of special purpose entities (SPEs), and (iii) the effect of moving from immediate counterpart to ultimate investing economy (UIE). A unique global FDI network is estimated, where SPEs are removed and FDI positions are broken down by the UIE. Total inward FDI in the new network is reduced by one-third, and financial centers are less dominant. Mode of access: Internet FDI Estimate imf FDI Network imf FDI Position imf Inward FDI imf WP imf United States imf Elkjaer, Thomas. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/258 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2017/258/001.2017.issue-258-en.xml IMF e-Library