overall corporate governance may have a negative effect on M&A activity. Since M&A foreign direct investment (FDI) is a cross …-border variant of M&A, stronger corporate governance may also reduce M&A FDI. Hence, we use firm-level evidence from Japanese FDI … into the United States to investigate the effect of US corporate governance on Japanese M&A FDI. Our results indicate that …

of outward foreign direct investment (FDI). The central objective of this paper is to evaluate the prospects for SWFs to … serve as a major conduit for the region's outward FDI. In principle, FDI represents an attractive means of earning higher … sensitivity of state-led FDI severely constrains the ability of developing Asia's SWFs to undertake FDI on a significant scale …

There are four major modes through which firms undertake foreign direct investment (FDI): merger and acquisition (M …&A), joint venture, new plant, and others. The four modes of FDI are distinct from each other, and each has its own unique … advantages and disadvantages. While a large and growing empirical literature examines the determinants of FDI, very few studies …

investment (FDI). This, in turn, can reduce the returns from non-M&A FDI in light of the complementary relationship between M …&A and non-M&A FDI. We use firm-level evidence to empirically examine the effect of corporate governance in the United States … (US) on Japanese M&A and non-M&A FDI inflows. In doing so, we expand upon Alba, Park, and Wang (2009), which looked only …

We investigate the relationship between economic growth and lagged international capital flows, disaggregated into FDI … FDI - both inflows and outflows - and growth. The relationship between growth and equity flows is smaller and less stable …

The paper examines the impact of exchange rates on foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into the United States in … the context of a model that allows for the interdependence of FDI over time. Interdependence is modeled as a two …-state Markov process where the two states can be interpreted as either a favorable or an unfavorable environment for FDI in an …