Multinational enterprises (MNE)

The ADIMA dataset includes 500 of the world's largest multinational enteprises (MNE), providing information such as where MNEs are located, how they operate, and where they pay taxes. The data is broken down according to four components: 1) a physical register offering a comprehensive view of each MNE and its subsidiaries, 2) a digital register showing all websites belonging to each MNE, 3) indicators providing harmonized data the global level, and 4) monitoring data identifying events like large company restructurings that can give early warnings of potential significant impacts on trade, GDP and FDI data.

The AMNE database presents detailed data on the activities of foreign affiliates in OECD countries (inward and outward activity of multinationals). The data indicate the increasing importance of foreign affiliates in the economies of host countries, particularly in production, employment, value added, research and development, labor compensation, exports. AMNE contains 17 variables* broken down by country of origin (inward investment) or location (outward investment) and by industrial sector for a large number of OECD countries. AMNE is based on data reported to OECD and Eurostat in the framework of annual surveys on the activities of foreign-controlled enterprises and foreign affiliates abroad controlled by residents of the compiling country (2005 - 2016).
*The 17 variables include: Number of enterprises, Number of persons employed, Turnover, Number of employees, Production, Value added at factor cost, Personnel costs, Gross investment in tangible goods, Gross operating surplus, Exports of goods and services, Imports of goods and services, Intra-firm exports of goods and services, Intra-firm imports of goods and services, Total intramural R&D expenditure, Total number of R&D personnel, Technological payments (inward only), Technological receipts (inward only).