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Banking Globalization, Transmission, and Monetary Policy Autonomy
Goldberg, Linda S. - 2013
International financial linkages, particularly through global bank flows, generate important questions about the …. Empirical tests of the trilemma support this view that global bank effects are heterogeneous, and also that the primary drivers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459165
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A Reference Point Theory of Mergers and Acquisitions
Baker, Malcolm - 2009
The use of judgmental anchors or reference points in valuing corporations affects several basic aspects of merger and acquisition activity including offer prices, deal success, market reaction, and merger waves. Offer prices are biased towards the 52-week high, a highly salient but largely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463098
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The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds
Bernstein, Shai - 2009
This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds and their relationship to the funds' organizational structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they are more likely to invest at home when domestic equity prices are higher,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463787
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Disaster Management
Van Reenen, John; Norris Keiller, Agnes - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
such disasters and adapt to their increased frequency. We examine this issue using a the latest wave of the World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576624
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The Choice between Formal and Informal Intellectual Property : A Literature Review
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2012
We survey the economic literature, both theoretical and empirical, on the choice of intellectual property protection by firms. Our focus is on the tradeoffs between using patents and disclosing versus the use of secrecy, although we also look briefly at the use of other means of formal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460676
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On the International Transmission of Shocks : Micro-Evidence from Mutual Fund Portfolios
Raddatz, Claudio - 2011
This paper uses micro-level data on mutual funds from different financial centers investing in equity and bonds to study how investors and managers behave and transmit shocks across countries. The paper finds that the volatility of mutual fund investments is driven quantitatively by both the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461300
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International dimensions of monetary policy : [... presented at the NBER Conference "International Dimensions of Monetary Policy", which was held June 11 through 13, 2007 ... in th...
Galí, Jordi (contributor); Gertler, Mark (contributor) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003825525
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Internationalization and the evolution of corporate valuation
Levine, Ross - 2005
"By documenting the evolution of Tobin's "q" before, during, and after firms internationalize, this paper provides evidence on the bonding, segmentation, and market timing theories of internationalization. Using new data on 9,096 firms across 74 countries over the period 1989-2000, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522397
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Land, Labor and Globalization in the Pre-Industrial Third World
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2000
/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time …-industrial Third World. This paper finds commodity price convergence to have been bigger in the Third World than the Atlantic economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470966
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When Did Globalization Begin?
O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 2000
Some world historians attach globalization big bang' significance to 1492 (Christopher Colombus stumbles on the … important events in recorded history. Other world historians insist that globalization stretches back even earlier. There is a … third view which argues that the world economy was fragmented and completely de-globalized before the 19th century. None of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471135