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Why do banks go abroad? : evidence from German data
Buch, Claudia M. - 1999
This paper provides empirical evidence on the determinants of foreign activities of German banks. We use regionally disaggregated panel data for the years 1981-98 and distinguish foreign direct investment from total foreign assets of domestic banks, of their foreign branches and their...
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Corporate governance and merger and acquisition foreign direct investment : firm-level evidence from Japanese foreign direct investment into the US
Alba, Joseph D.; Park, Donghyun; Wang, Peiming - 2009
Merger and acquisition (M&A) is a mechanism for promoting corporate governance suggesting that an improvement in 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...
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What is Real and What is Not in the Global FDI Network?
Damgaard, Jannick - 2020
Macro statistics on foreign direct investment (FDI) are blurred by offshore centers withenormous inward and outward investment positions. This paper uses several new datasources, both macro and micro, to estimate the global FDI network while disentangling realinvestment and phantom investment...
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Do Firm-Bank Relationships Affect Firms’ Internationalization?
De Bonis, Riccardo - 2015
The goal of this paper is to investigate the link between the length of a firm-bank relationship and firm's internationalization. The analysis is carried out on matched firm-bank micro-data from a survey of Italian enterprises from 1998 to 2003. We obtain two main results. First, a longer...
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Impact of Foreign Banks
Claessens, Stijn - 2017
This paper provides a critical assessment of the costs and benefits of foreign bank ownership. It reviews the extensive literature on the impact of foreign banks and uses a unique database on bank ownership, covering 129 countries, to (re-)examine a number of the issues discussed. It documents...
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Local Density and Foreign Subsidiary Performance
Eden, Lorraine; Miller, Stewart R. - 2011
explaining foreign subsidiary performance. This study draws upon the literatures on liability of foreignness and density … dependence to examine how local density within the host country affects performance, both directly and indirectly through its … performance, and that market experience is less beneficial in high density environments. Strategic conformity enhances performance …
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Impact of Foreign Banks
Claessens, Stijn - 2013
This paper provides a critical assessment of the costs and benefits of foreign bank ownership. It reviews the extensive literature on the impact of foreign banks and uses a unique database on bank ownership, covering 129 countries, to (re-)examine a number of the issues discussed. It documents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087268
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Corporate Governance and Merger and Acquisition Foreign Direct Investment : Firm-Level Evidence from Japanese Foreign Direct Investment into the US
Alba, Joseph D. - 2014
Merger and acquisition (M&A) is a mechanism for promoting corporate governance suggesting that an improvement in 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069901
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What Drives IFDIs in the Nigerian Banking Industry?
Aburime, Toni - 2011
To contribute to the understanding of FDIs in Nigeria, this study sought to empirically identify significant drivers of IFDIs in the Nigerian banking industry. Using a panel data set comprising 204 observations of 23 banks over the period 1996-2007 and industry-level, macroeconomic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133162
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Performance of foreign banks in developing countries : evidence from sub-Saharan African banking markets
Pelletier, Adeline - In: Journal of banking & finance 88 (2018), pp. 292-311
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