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insurance assessment, while foreign deposits are not. This paper examines the arguments for and against extending this … assessment to foreign branch deposits of insured banks, which in the aggregate amount to more than $200 billion. These arguments … incidence effects on loan and deposit customers in a three sector--money center banks, foreign banks, and regional and smaller …
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, at both the firm and country level, negatively impacts the willingness of foreign investors to hold a firm's equity …
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, that at a point in time U.S. portfolios are tilted towards firms that are large, have fewer restrictions on foreign …-documented underweighting of foreign stocks, emerging market equities that are cross-listed on a U.S. exchange are incorporated into U …
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of foreign stocks. We document that U.S. cross-listings are economically important, as U.S. ownership in a foreign firm …
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Since 2001, foreign investors have acquired roughly $5 trillion in U.S. securities--more than doubling their holdings …. Although the rapid growth of foreign holdings of U.S. securities raises concerns that foreign investors may have become too … heavily weighted in U.S. assets, foreign investors have not in fact materially changed the relative allocations between U …
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' holdings of debt and equities in over 40 countries and, for the same countries, foreign investors' holdings of U.S. debt and … designed to measure cross-border transactions with foreign counterparties who are often intermediaries, the majority of the … portray net inflows into U.S. equities and net outflows into foreign bonds. However, the data substantially overcount net …
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This paper studies both the domestic and foreign fixed investment expenditures of a sample of U. S. multinational firms … capital as a function of its debt/equity ratio. Domestic and foreign investment will be interdependent, since, in competing … the home to the foreign location. ; The hypotheses are tested on a unique sample of micro-economic data covering the …
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In contrast to the empirical literature's focus on foreign direct investment (FDI), this study examines the effects of … foreign portfolio investment (FPI) and "other" foreign investment (OFI) on economic growth using data on 88 countries from … questionable due to possible simultaneity bias. The empirical analyses also examine whether non-FDI foreign investment affects …
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This paper is a general discussion of debt conversions in heavily indebted developing countries. The paper first describes the three different types of transactions that are commonly called debt conversions. Next the paper discusses programs that have been established in Chile, Brazil, Mexico,...
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During the early 1980s, many less developed countries (LDCs) experienced a phenomenon which is not readily explicable using conventional macroeconomic theory: accelerating inflation coupled with output contraction. Moreover, arguments based on supply shocks do not adequately explain the...
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