Pierre-Louis Vézina Archives

Refugees and foreign direct investment: Quasi-experimental evidence from US resettlements

We use the frameworks of two different US refugee dispersal policies to provide causal evidence that refugees promote outward foreign direct investment (FDI) to their countries and regions of origin.…

Anna-Maria Mayda, Christopher Parsons, Han Pham, Pierre-Louis Vézina

Refugees, trade, and FDI

Humanitarian policies designed to welcome forced migrants can lead to unexpected economic benefits. This article examines how refugees create trade and investment connections between their new countries and their countries…

Christopher Parsons, Dany Bahar, Pierre-Louis Vézina