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China's outward FDI : an industry-level analysis of host country determinants
Amighini, Alessia; Rabellotti, Roberta; Sanfilippo, Marco - 2011
We provide an empirical analysis of host country determinants of Chinese outward FDI for the period 2003 to 2008, using data disaggregated by country and industry. We want to assess the relevance of market-seeking, resource-seeking and strategic asset seeking motivations suggested by the theory...
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Modeling fluctuations in the global demand for commodities
Kilian, Lutz; Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2017
It is widely understood that the real price of globally traded commodities is determined by the forces of demand and supply. One of the main determinants of the real price of commodities is shifts in the demand for commodities associated with unexpected fluctuations in global real economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011754229
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Measuring global real economic activity : do recent critiques hold up to scrutiny?
Kilian, Lutz - 2019
Hamilton (2018) suggests that the Kilian (2009) index of global real economic activity is misleading and calls for alternative measures. The problem documented by Hamilton is a consequence of a coding mistake. Specifically, the index of nominal freight rates underlying the Kilian index was...
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Firm-specific characteristics and the timing of foreign direct investment projects
Raff, Horst (contributor); Ryan, Michael (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003462031
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Asset ownership and foreign-market entry
Raff, Horst (contributor); Ryan, Michael (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper examines the link between a firm’s ownership of productive assets and its choice of foreign-market entry strategy. We find that, controlling for industry- and country-specific characteristics, the most productive firms (i.e., those owning the most assets) will enter through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301155
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Foreign currency denominated assets and international shock absorption in Switzerland and Japan
Schnabl, Gunther - 2015
Currencies of countries with persistent current account surpluses and high foreign currency denominated assets such as the Swiss franc and Japanese yen are under a persistent appreciation pressure, what restricts the degree of freedom in the choice of exchange rate regime. Official announcements...
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Economy wide impact of the trade integration between Japan and India : a computable general equilibrium analysis
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Mukhopadhyay, Kakali - 2013
Japan and India signed the much-awaited Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) on 16th February 2011. The …, the study evaluates the economy wide impact of the proposed CEPA between India and Japan at 2020. The study has used a … India and Japan in 2020 after tariff reduction compared to Business as Usual (BAU) scenario. A marginal export growth is …
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Global engagement and returns volatility
Girma, Sourafel; Lancheros, Sandra; Riaño, Alejandro - 2015
This paper uses high-frequency data for publicly-listed Japanese manufacturing firms over the period 2000 to 2010 to show that a greater reliance on foreign market sales increases the conditional volatility of firms' stock returns. The two margins of global engagement we consider, namely,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405146
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Prospects of regional cooperation in trade, investment and finance in Asia : an empirical analysis on BIMSTEC countries and Japan
Bhattacharya, Swapan K. (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003364179
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Financial frictions and foreign direct investment : theory and evidence from Japanese microdata
Raff, Horst; Ryan, Michael; Stähler, Frank - 2015
We use Japanese microdata to examine how financial market frictions affect foreign direct investment (FDI). The Japanese land price bubble and banking trouble in the late 1980s and early 1990s serve as a quasi natural experiment to identify two possible transmission channels from financial...
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