Does foreign bank entry really stimulate gross domestic investment?
This paper investigates the linear as well as non-linear properties of the relationship between the entry of foreign-owned private banks and changes in gross domestic investment. A standard model of aggregate investment behaviour, in which an indicator for foreign banks is one of the determinants, is estimated and tested on a cross-section of data from 54 countries. The regression results suggest that the relationship between foreign bank entry and aggregate investment mimics a U-curve: low (high) values of foreign bank entry have negative (positive) effects on domestic investment. The threshold value for the U-curve is also identified and represents the critical point at which foreign bank entry starts to stimulate aggregate investment. Overall, therefore, the evidence suggests that there is a robust non-linear (U-curve) relationship, so that the presence of foreign banks leads to investment expansion only after foreign bank presence becomes large enough as a share of local banking activity.
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2006
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Authors: | Lensink, Robert ; Murinde, Victor |
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Applied Financial Economics. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 0960-3107. - Vol. 16.2006, 8, p. 569-582
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Taylor & Francis Journals |
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