Purpose: This study aims to examine the effect of greenfield foreign direct investment (GFDI) and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) on the environment and more specifically, on the sectoral emissions of CO2. The authors identify significant differential and income effects with various data...

Using a new methodology that allows nonlinearities, we find frequent support for external debt sustainability in a number of Latin American countries. Our findings reverse the results for several countries, obtained with traditional unit-root tests and present a richer framework for evaluating...

We analyze the impact on growth of cross-border mergers and acquisition (M&A) sales. Using the GMM methodology we find that most economies benefit from financial service M&A sales. However, some type of capital flows may hurt growth. In some cases M&A sales in manufacturing and the primary...