Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have emerged in developing Asia as a policy response to an unprecedented accumulation of … sensitivity of state-led FDI severely constrains the ability of developing Asia's SWFs to undertake FDI on a significant scale …. Therefore, the potential for developing Asia's SWFs to become major sources of outward FDI is more apparent than real. This …

Asia has run since the 1997–1998 Asian crisis. A country's current account surplus is, by definition, equal to its net …

-border variant of M&A, stronger corporate governance may also reduce M&A FDI. Hence, we use firm-level evidence from Japanese FDI … into the United States to investigate the effect of US corporate governance on Japanese M&A FDI. Our results indicate that … significantly to the sharp decline in Japanese M&A FDI in the US during the 1990s. Our evidence lends some support to the notion …

stylized two-stage investment process. First, we look at the probability of whether a Japanese firm is willing to undertake FDI …

(US) on Japanese M&A and non-M&A FDI inflows. In doing so, we expand upon Alba, Park, and Wang (2009), which looked only … Japanese M&A and non-M&A FDI into the US during the 1990s. The regulations apparently encouraged US firms to improve their …

While developing Asia has recovered strongly from the global crisis, the region faces the medium- and long … Asia's growth. Our results also confirm the relevance of supply-side factors, in particular human capital and openness to … trade, for developing Asia's medium- and long-term growth. The overarching implication for policy makers is that supply …

trade within Asia while reducing trade outside. Adopting them would shift employment from energy and mining to manufacturing …

In this paper we empirically explore the relationship between fiscal policy and economic growth in developing Asia. The …

equitable society that provides opportunities for all. Developing Asia has trailed other parts of the world in equity …