The papers listed below report results from research by academic economists who were granted access to BEA's business confidential data on multinational firms and cross-border trade in services as nonpaid special sworn research consultants of the Bureau. The papers are listed in reverse chronological order but can be sorted by the text in the columns of the table. The papers fall into the following research categories:

  • Journal articles
  • Book chapters
  • Report chapters
  • Working papers (unpublished papers issued under an institutional working paper series)
  • Mimeos (unpublished papers not issued under an institutional working paper series)

The views expressed in these papers are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect views of the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis or the U.S. Department of Commerce.