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Surviving the Global Financial Crisis : Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance
Alfaro, Laura - 2011
We examine the differential response of establishments to the recent global financial crisis with particular emphasis on the role of foreign ownership. Using a worldwide establishment panel dataset, we investigate how multinational subsidiaries around the world responded to the crisis relative...
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Financial Development and the Instability of Open Economies
Aghion, Philippe - 2004
This paper introduces a framework for analyzing the role of financial factors as a source of instability in small open economies. Our basic model is a dynamic open economy model with a tradeable good produced with capital and a country-specific factor. We also assume that firms face credit...
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Debt Overhang, Rollover Risk, and Corporate Investment : Evidence from the European Crisis
Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - 2018
We quantify the role of financial factors that have contributed to sluggish investment in Europe in the aftermath of the 2008-2009 crisis. Using a big data approach, we match the firms to their banks based on banking relationships in 8 European countries over time, obtaining over 2 million...
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Financial Frictions and Fluctuations in Volatility
Arellano, Cristina - 2016
During the recent U.S. financial crisis, the large decline in aggregate output and labor was accompanied by both a tightening of financial conditions and a large increase in the dispersion of growth rates across firms. The tightened financial conditions manifested themselves as increases in...
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A Fistful of Dollars : Lobbying and the Financial Crisis
Igan, Deniz - 2011
Has lobbying by financial institutions contributed to the financial crisis? This paper uses detailed information on … financial institutions' lobbying and mortgage lending activities to answer this question. We find that lobbying was associated … with more risk-taking during 2000-07 and with worse outcomes in 2008. In particular, lenders lobbying more intensively on …
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Resource Allocation within Firms and Financial Market Dislocation : Evidence from Diversified Conglomerates
Matvos, Gregor - 2011
When external capital markets are stressed they may not reallocate resources between firms. We show that resource allocation within firms' internal capital markets provides an important force countervailing financial market dislocation. Using data on US conglomerates we empirically verify that...
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International Contagion Through Leveraged Financial Institutions
van Wincoop, Eric - 2011
The 2008-2009 financial crises, while originating in the United States, witnessed a drop in asset prices and output that was at least as large in the rest of the world as in the United States. A widely held view is that this was the result of global transmission through leveraged financial...
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Multinationals and the High Cash Holdings Puzzle
Pinkowitz, Lee - 2012
Defining as normal cash holdings the holdings a firm with the same characteristics would have had in the late 1990s, we find that the abnormal cash holdings of U.S. firms after the crisis represent on average 1.86% of assets. While U.S. firms held less cash than comparable foreign firms in the...
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Financial Crises and the Global Supply Network : Evidence from Multinational Enterprises
Basco, Sergi; Felice, Giulia; Merlevede, Bruno; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper empirically examines the effects of financial crises on the organization of production of multinational enterprises. We construct a panel of European multinational networks from 2003 through 2015. We use as a financial shock the increase in risk premia between August 2007 and July...
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Tracing the International Transmission of a Crisis Through Multinational Firms
Biermann, Marcus; Huber, Kilian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We show that multinational firms transmit shocks across countries through their internal capital markets. We study a credit supply shock to parent firms in Germany. International affiliates outside Germany supported their parents through internal lending, became financially constrained...
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