This paper examines the major economic and institutional factors underlying the surge in foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to Mexico during the 1990s. It presents evidence that indicates that market-friendly economic reforms and major changes in the institutional-legal status of foreign...

In this paper, the authors study the changes in liquidity following the introduction of a new electronic limit order market when, prior to its introduction, trading is centralized in a single limit order market. They also study how automation of routing decisions and trading fees affect the...

This paper extends the results obtained by Hwang et al. (1997) and Yang (2005) to the case of multi-domestic firms. Either the domestic government's budget constraint may be binding or there exists the social cost which caused by financing the export subsidy, we find that the policy of the...