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Quantifying Productivity Gains from Foreign Investment

Fons-Rosen, Christian - 2013

We quantify the effect of foreign investment on productivity of acquired firms using a new firm-level database that tracks foreign ownership changes. To control for endogenous selection on unobserved firm-level characteristics, we study the differential impact of majority and minority foreign...

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Gross Capital Flows by Banks, Corporates and Sovereigns

Avdjiev, Stefan - 2017

We construct a new dataset of quarterly capital flows by sector and establish four facts. First, the co-movement of capital inflows and outflows is driven by banks. Second, procyclicality of capital inflows is driven by banks and corporates, whereas sovereigns' external liabilities move...

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Leverage Across Firms, Banks, and Countries

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - 2011

We present new stylized facts on bank and firm leverage for 2000-2009 using extensive internationally comparable micro …-financial firm and commercial bank before the crisis, but the picture was quite different for large commercial banks in the United …) banks in emerging markets with tighter bank regulation and stronger investor protection experienced significantly less …

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