We explore the effect of foreign direct investment on economic growth in developing countries, distinguishing between mergers and acquisitions ("M&As") and "greenfield" investment. A simple model captures the key difference between the two types of FDI: unlike greenfield investment, M&As partly...

Ever since India decided to globalize, concentrated effort was made to attract Japanese participation through foreign direct investment. However, response from Japan has been rather subdued. This paper attempts to gain some insight into this reluctance of Japanese investors by studying the...

We examine financial constraints and forms of finance used for investment, byanalysing survey data on 157 large privatised companies in Hungary and Poland for theperiod 1998 – 2000. The Bayesian analysis using Gibbs sampling is carried out toobtain inferences about the sample companies’...

Large shareholders may play an important role for firm performance and policies, butidentifying this empirically presents a challenge due to the endogeneity of ownershipstructures. We develop and test an empirical framework which allows us to separateselection from treatment effects of large...

Présentation des différentes logiques, formes et facteurs associés à la mondialisation des entreprises. Réponse aux questions sur le problème de la régulation de ce phénomène. Aborde également la question de l'efficacité des politiques publiques face aux délocalisations.

L'ouvrage présente des différentes logiques, formes et facteurs associés à la mondialisation des entreprises. Il fournit des réponses aux questions sur le problème de la régulation de ce phénomène. Aborde également la question de l'efficacité des politiques publiques face aux...

By using data on cross-border acquisitions (CBAs), this paper explores the distribution of the strategies pursued when multinational enterprizes integrate a foreign subsidiary into their organisational structure. Based on a measure of vertical relatedness, each of the 165,000 acquisitions in our...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate empirically the importance of labor market conditions and in particular of employment protection legislation as a determinant of bilateral Foreign Direct Investment flows to seven Central and Eastern European countries. Although our results indicate...