Do you have a link to the 2005 NBER study?
Ray Mataloni “Operations of U.S. Multinational Companies” http://www.bea.gov/scb/pdf/2007/11%20November/1107_mnc.pdf Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr., “Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Economic Activity,” National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper no. 11717, October 2005.
http://www.bus.umich.edu/otpr/WP2005-13.pdf