Abstract This paper analyzes the development characteristics in outward direct investment and the industrial structure in the United States by structuring the index of industrial upgrading,and VAR model to research the relation on outward direct investment and industrial upgrading in the United States. Comparing China with United States in GDP,we can find that level of economic development that in China at present is really close to United States in the 1990s.On this basis,the mathematical model of grey relevance degree is used to analyze the relevance degree between eight major industrial of outward direct investment in the United States and its upgrading of the industrial structure from 1990 to 2001.
GAO Li-Feng,LI Wen-Fang,XU Ya-Qian. Research on the Relation between ODI and Industrial Upgrading in the United States. Economic Survey, 2013, 1(6): 072.
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