This study empirically tests shareholder wealth effects at the announcement of acquisitions of foreign firms by Chinese firms. Listed firms in China are unique in that the ratio of shareholding by the state or state-owned enterprises is high in many firms, and their shares listed sorely in...

This paper first compares Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) trends between China and Latin America - the main investors among developing economies today. We discover that although China and Latin American countries have different geographic distributions, their investment in developed...

Clinoptilolite zeolite (Z) has been widely used for reducing nutrient loss and improving crop productivity. However, the impacts of zeolite on CH4 and N2O emissions in rice fields under various irrigation regimes are still unclear. Therefore, a three-year field experiment using a split-plot...

Using a fixed effect variance decomposition model, we estimate SUR models to analyze FDI spillovers from contagion and spillovers from competition on local firms in China. While the former type of spillover mainly depends on the degree of foreign presence in the local industry, the latter kind...

Chinese direct investments in Latin America reached US$15 billion in 2010, 90% of which was in the extractive industries. An analysis of the figures shows that it is mainly through trade, rather than through FDI that China is influencing South America's productive structure. Moreover, there is...

FDI is now the largest external liability in developing countries and is being paid through outflows of FDI income, or profits of foreign companies. These profits have grown to a point in which they may play an important role in a potential balance of payments crisis.

Proposals to reform corporate tax in the United States want to encourage domestic investment by American companies. The reform may trigger a large repatriation of accumulated foreign earnings, but most of this inflow will not be directed to productive investments.