Blanchard and Acalin warn of FDI measurement problems

Measured foreign direct investment is not as long term as generally thought

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Olivier Blanchard

Flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) often behave more like short-term debt flows than long-term, slow moving investments, economists from the Peterson Institute for International Economics warn in a new paper.

Former International Monetary Fund chief economist Olivier Blanchard and research analyst Julien Acalin uncovered a few unexpected facts about FDI in the course of wider research into capital flows.

In the paper they identify a "surprisingly high" correlation between inward and

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