We investigate the economically and statistically significant positive correlation between monthly foreign purchases of … Mexican stocks and Mexican stock returns. We find that 1 percent of market capitalization surprise foreign inflow is … Merton (1987) or correlations with other factors causing returns, price pressures, or positive feedback strategies by foreign …

The market share of U.S. business loans made by foreign-owned banks has increased dramatically since 1980. At the same … time, foreign direct investment in the U.S. rose, so that much of the increase in foreign-owned U.S.-based bank lending to … businesses in the U.S. could conceivably be accounted for by an increase in loans to the U.S. affiliates of firms headquartered …