Koen DeBacker's presentation at the FDI Statistics Workshop (20 March 2014) during the session on other data sources for measuring globalisation. Find out more at http://www.oecd.org/daf/inv/measuring-globalisation-fdi-statistics-workshop-2014.htm

1. ECONOMIC GLOBALISATION
INDICATORS & AMNE DATA
Koen De Backer
FDI Statistics Workshop, OECD
Paris, 20 March 2014

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(Economic) Globalisation
• Reallocation of productive resources: goods, services,
capital, workforce, human capital, technology and
knowledge…
• … often in Global Value Chains
• ELS: migration database
EDU: education at a glance
• STI: R&D, patents, trademarks,
international cooperation, doctoral
students, foreign scholars, etc.

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Economic Globalisation Indicators 2010 (1)
Funds from abroad, 2007 (% of business enterprise R&D)
Firms in Europe with foreign collaboration in
innovation, 2004-2006 (% of all firms)

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Economic Globalisation Indicators 2010 (2)
Share of internationally co-authored scientific articles, 2007
Student mobility in tertiary education, 2007
(% of international students in tertiary enrolments

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The central role of MNEs in globalisation
• OECD AMNE database
– Methodological framework: the OECD Handbook on
Economic Globalisation Indicators and Eurostat’s
FATS Recommendations manual
– Based on the concept of control
– Inward investment: structural Business Statistics
– Outward investment: surveys on direct investment
– Parent companies

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Description of the AMNE database
• 26 declaring countries
• 16 variables: turnover, value added, employment,
personnel costs, trade, R&D…
• 2-digit level of detail for industries (ISIC Rev.4)
• Large number of partner countries
• National total data  performance gaps between
foreign affiliates and domestic firms

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OECD AMNE Database (1)
Share of national employment under foreign control, 2010
R&D intensity in the manufacturing sector, 2009

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OECD AMNE Database (2)
Ireland, electrical and optical equipment, 2009
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Domestic VA
Foreign VA
Largely stays in
the host economy
GROSS EXPORTS DOMESTIC VA - DOMESTIC VA - LABOUR OPERATING
DOMESTIC FIRMS FOREIGN MNEs COMPENSATION - SURPLUS -
FOREIGN MNEs FOREIGN MNEs
May (partially)
leave the host
economy