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- What Drives Capital Flows? The Case of Cross-Border M&A Activity and Financial Deepening
- The question this article tries to address is what macroeconomic and financial variables play key roles in the foreign direct investment decision FDI of firms? This question is addressed in this article using a large panel data set of cross-border Merger & Acquisition (M&A) deals for the period 1990-1999. Various...
- White papers 2002-01-01
- Foreign Direct Investment In Emerging Markets: Income, Repatriations And Financial Vulnerabillities
- Based on U.S. data, the returns on foreign direct investment in emerging markets are shown to be substantially higher than would be suggested by official balance of payments statistics. This paper identifies the determinants of FDI profitability in 43 industrialized and developing countries. After financial leverage and the effect of...
- White papers 2002-03-01
- Foreign Direct Investment in the Financial Sector of Emerging Market Economies
- Foreign presence in the financial sector of emerging market economies EMEs increased dramatically over the course of the 1990s. In the second half of the decade, financial sector foreign direct investment FSFDI inflows were about eight times that of the preceding five years. While banks accounted for the lion's share...
- White papers 2004-03-01
- The Role of FDI in Emerging Market Economies Compared to Other Forms of Financing: Past Developments and Implications for Financial Stability
- This paper discusses the problems pertaining to defining what actually constitutes FDI and the measurement problems that result from the difficulties. The upshot is that the recorded items can vary widely from one country to the other and FDI statistics must therefore be interpreted with a sense of caution. It...
- White papers 2003-02-24
- Foreign Direct Investment in the Financial Sector - Experiences in Asia, Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America
- The report discusses how the surge in financial sector foreign direct investment FSFDI over the past decade has been instrumental in integrating emerging economies into the global financial system. The integration has brought substantial benefits to host countries' financial systems in terms of efficiency and stability. The report also looks...
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Do Institutions Affect Foreign Direct Investment?
- This paper argues that countries whose governments are highly ranked according to various indices of the quality of institutions tend to do better in attracting foreign direct investment. In an empirical analysis of cross-section data, the paper finds that different aspects of the quality of institutions from a country (corruption,...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Foreign Direct Investments In The Financial Sector
- This paper examines the impact of Financial-Sector Foreign Direct Investment FSFDI on economic growth by estimating a panel data model for 11 Central and Eastern European countries CEECs between 1994 and 2003 in a cross-country growth accounting framework. The analysis concentrates on the efficiency channel linking FSFDI to economic growth....
- White papers 2005-10-15
- FDI And Economic Growth: The Role Of Local Financial Markets
- This paper examines the various links among Foreign Direct Investment FDI, financial markets, and economic growth. It explores whether countries with better financial systems can exploit FDI more efficiently. Empirical analysis, using cross-country data between 1975-1995, shows that FDI alone plays an ambiguous role in contributing to economic growth. However,...
- White papers 2003-02-01
- Financial Sector FDI In Asian Economies: Some Stylized Facts And Observations
- The purpose of this paper is to have a look at emerging economies in Asia and summarize stylized facts and observations concerning international capital flow in general and Foreign Direct Investment FDI in the financial sector in particular, as well as foreign bank activities. The investment flow data from the...
- White papers 2004-03-24
- Taxation And The Financial Structure Of Foreign Direct Investment
- Corporate tax incentives are one of the most important instruments used by governments to attract inward FDI Foreign Direct Investment flows. By lowering corporate tax rates countries raise the profitability of FDI and thus increase their attractiveness as a location. However, multinationals can also lower their tax burden by lending...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- SMEs, FDI And Financial Constraints
- This paper aims at exploring the problems experienced by SMEs with international ambitions in gaining access to debt and equity finance for Foreign Direct Investment FDI projects. This paper develops several hypotheses why such SMEs are expected to face severe financing constraints for foreign investments and provide an explorative empirical...
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Financial FDI And Host Countries: New And Old Lessons
- In this paper, the author argues that some of the established lessons from general FDI Foreign Direct Investment research directly pertain to financial FDI. However, financial FDI also raises a distinct set of concerns. His reviews of some of the main findings and policy themes of the general FDI research...
- White papers 2003-03-06
- Multinational Firms, FDI Flows And Imperfect Capital Markets
- This paper examines how costly financial contracting and weak investor protection influence the cross-border operational, financing and investment decisions of firms. A model is developed in which product developers have a comparative advantage in monitoring the deployment of their technology abroad. The paper demonstrates that when firms want to exploit...
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Proactive Financial Strategies And The OLI Paradigm Of FDI
- This paper argues that the OLI paradigm underplays the financial aspects of international production. The authors claim that proactive financial strategies generate OLI advantages that can be exploited through such production. Based on a sample of 1379 non-financial European firms evidence is found that proactive financial strategies involving the undertaking...
- White papers 2004-05-21
- How Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth?: Exploring The Effects Of Financial Markets on Linkages
- The empirical literature finds mixed evidence on the existence of positive productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a novel mechanism, which emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling Foreign Direct Investment FDI to promote growth through backward linkages, shedding light on...
- White papers 2006-06-01
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- Aid And Foreign Direct Investment: International Evidence
- Although the literature on the effects of both aid and Foreign Direct Investment FDI on development is vast, the relationship between aid and FDI has not been sufficiently explored. This paper empirically investigates the effect of aid on foreign direct investment in view of the hypothesis that countries that receive...
- White papers 2005-06-16
- Troubled Banks, Impaired Foreign Direct Investment
- The relative wealth hypothesis of Froot and Stein (1991), motivated by the aggregate correlation between real exchange rates and foreign direct investment FDI observed in the 1980s, cannot explain one of the major shifts in FDI in the 1990s. Using both bank-level and firm-level data sets, we find that financial...
- White papers 2000-08-08
- Trade And Foreign Direct Investment: How Do They Impact On Manufacturing Uruguayan Firms?
- Nowadays countries are more interdependent than ever. This increasing interdependence, named "Globalization", could be measured through the increase in trade flows, foreign direct investment and financial flows and labour movements between nations. The authors are interested in analysing the impact of these movements on developing countries. The evidence of positive...
- White papers 2006-03-08
- Does Aid Promote Foreign Direct Investment?: International Evidence
- Although the literature on the effects of both aid and Foreign Direct Investment FDI on development is vast, the relationship between aid and FDI has not been sufficiently explored. This paper empirically investigates the effect of aid on foreign direct investment in view of the hypothesis that countries that receive...
- White papers 2005-11-28
- Financial-Sector Foreign Direct Investment And Host Countries: New And Old Lessons
- Many of the lessons From Foreign Direct Investment FDI research on manufacturing and extractive resource industries are applicable to FDI research on the financial sector. This paper summarizes the main findings and policy themes of FDI research, with a primary focus on the implications of FDI for host countries, especially...
- White papers 2004-04-01
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