foreigners. We use a bank-level panel data set spanning all British and foreign banks providing loans within the United Kingdom …-term interest rates, though our data set here is much smaller. We examine the loan mix for both British and foreign banks, both … of financial protectionism. After nationalisations, foreign banks reduced the fraction of loans going to the UK by about …

This paper examines two broad issues related to foreign investment by Swedish multinational corporations (MNCs): first …, the effects of outward foreign direct investment on domestic investment, exports and employment, and second, the effects … on the domestic economy from the increasing division of labour between the parents and foreign affiliates of Swedish MNCs …

foreign-owned firms do not suffer from limited external finance. Previous leverage can strain investment, suggesting that hard …

after 1994 than before. In accounting for these patterns, our analysis points to the importance of direct foreign investment …-insensitive export products that offer countries insulation from foreign competition. …

This paper uses firm level panel data to investigate empirically the effects of direct foreign investment (DFI) on the …. To this end a unique firm level panel data set is used with detailed information on foreign ownership at the firm level …. Two main questions are addressed in the present paper: (1) Do foreign firms perform better than their domestic …

This Paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention to two …&D activity conducted by foreign multinationals. We review existing theoretical and empirical work, which largely focuses on … Kingdom. We find that multinationals play an important role in service sectors and that entry of foreign multinationals by …

be found in host countries, where the operations of foreign multinationals may influence local firms in the MNC’s own …. In particular, the positive effects of foreign investment are likely to increase with the level of local capability and …

of foreign investment. It uses a novel dataset of Dutch sector-level investments between 1983 and 2010 to explore this …

Firm-level data for the Czech Republic during 1992–6 suggest that foreign investment has tended to flow to firms of … find that foreign investment has a positive, but statistically insignificant, impact on TFP growth. This is surprising …, given that there is a presumption that foreign investors should be transferring new technologies and knowledge to partner …

received foreign capital between 1880 and 1913. The detailed nature of the data allows us to explore variation between …