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Financial Frictions and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence from Japanese Microdata
Raff, Horst; Ryan, Michael; Stähler, Frank - CESifo - 2015
identify two possible transmission channels from financial shocks to FDI: (i) a collateral channel, whereby changes in the … value of collateral affect investors’ ability to borrow; and (ii) a lending channel, whereby changes in bank health affect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011205374
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Financial Frictions and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence from Japanese Microdata
Raff, Horst; Ryan, Michael; Stähler, Frank - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015
identify two possible transmission channels from financial shocks to FDI: (i) a collateral channel, whereby changes in the … value of collateral affect investors’ ability to borrow; and (ii) a lending channel, whereby changes in bank health affect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011208175
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Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers
Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791421
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Foreign direct investment earnings and their division in the Czech Republic
Novotný, Filip - In: Politická ekonomie 2004 (2004) 6
The Czech economy has been characterized by a rapidly increasing external income balance deficit since 1998, which was caused by an increasing outflow of FDI earnings. The paper analyses factors, which determine the total amount of FDI earnings in a host economy and their subsequent division...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963551
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Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers
Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762398
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Sustainability, Accountability and Corporate Governance : Exploring Multinationals' Reporting Practices
Kolk, Ans - 2014
governance aspects. Many multinationals, particularly in Europe and Japan, have started to pay attention to board supervision and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012752294
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Geographic and Industrial Corporate Diversification : The Level and Structure of Executive Compensation
Duru, Augustine - 2014
We explore the relation between corporate diversification and CEO compensation. We document that geographic diversification provides a compensation premium, while industrial diversification is associated with lower levels of CEO pay. We also examine the effect of corporate diversification on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012752805
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When is FDI a Capital Flow?
Marin, Dalia - 2009
movement. We develop a model in which the optimal choice of financing an international investment trades of the relative costs … and benefits associated with the allocation and effectiveness of control rights resulting from the financing decision. We … find that the financing choice is driven by managerial incentive problems and that FDI involves an international capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012719739
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Regional Mix and the Roles of Foreign Subsidiaries: A New Conceptualization and Empirical Evidence on the UK Case
Kottaridi, Constantina; Filippaios, Fragkiskos; … - In: SPOUDAI Journal of Economics and Business 63 (2013) 1-2, pp. 47-74
This paper develops a new conceptualization of the relationship between regional determinants and roles of foreign subsidiaries and empirically investigates this relationship in the UK at a disaggregated regional level. It focuses particularly on a relatively under- investigated field, that of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854582
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Internationale Expansion in der pharmazeutischen Industrie Österreichs
Zeller, Christian; Hametner, Andreas; Smet, Koen; … - FIW - 2014
Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die internationale Expansion der Pharmaindustrie in Österreich und stellt diese in den Kontext der zunehmenden weltwirtschaftlichen Verflech-tungen. Die Pharmaindustrie in Österreich besteht einerseits aus den Filialen einiger inter-national tätiger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856814