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Foreign Ownership and Corporate Restructuring: Direct Investment by Emerging-Market Firms in the United States
Chari, Anusha; Chen, Wenjie; Dominguez, Kathryn M.E. - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 2009
This paper examines the recent upsurge in foreign direct investment by emerging-market firms into the United States. Traditionally, direct investment flowed from developed to developing countries, bringing with it superior technology, organizational capital, and access to international capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552014
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Cross-Border Listings, Capital Controls, and U.S. Equity Flows to Emerging Markets
Edison, Hali J.; Warnock, Francis E. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
We analyze capital flows to emerging markets in a framework that incorporates two quantitative measures of financial integration, the intensity of capital controls and the extent of cross border listings, while controlling for traditional global (push) and country specific (pull) factors. Two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005604783
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Surges and Sudden Stops of Capital Flows to Emerging Markets
Sula, Ozan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
A characteristic of many of the recent emerging market currency crises is a preceding surge in capital inflows and their reversals or ‘sudden stops’ during the crises. The empirical investigation of 38 emerging market economies between 1990 and 2003 reveals that a surge in capital inflows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005620010
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Reversibility of Different Types of Capital Flows to Emerging Markets
Sula, Ozan; Willett, Thomas D. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Most of the emerging market currency crises are accompanied by sharp reversals or “sudden stops” of capital inflows. We investigated whether some types of capital flows are more likely to reverse than others during these crises. Foreign direct investment is usually considered stable while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621262
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The Effectiveness of Capital Controls and Prudential Policies in Managing Large Inflows
Habermeier, Karl Friedrich; Kokenyne, Annamaria; Baba, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
Staff Discussion Notes showcase the latest policy-related analysis and research being developed by individual IMF staff and are published to elicit comment and to further debate. These papers are generally brief and written in nontechnical language, and so are aimed at a broad audience...
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Capital Flows to EU New Member States; Does Sector Destination Matter?
Mitra, Pritha - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
The recent boom-bust episode in Emerging Europe was largely the product of surges and sudden stops in capital inflows. This paper empirically argues that the sectors into which capital flows determines their impact on GDP growth. Applying data from EU New Member States, it is found that capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019584
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Spillovers from United States Monetary Policy on Emerging Markets: Different This Time?
Chen, Jiaqian; Griffoli, Tommaso Mancini; Sahay, Ratna - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
The impact of monetary policy in large advanced countries on emerging market economies—dubbed spillovers—is hotly debated in global and national policy circles. When the U.S. resorted to unconventional monetary policy, spillovers on asset prices and capital flows were significant,...
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Do strategic alliances, acquisitions, and R&D investments act as complements or substitutes?
Martynov, Aleksey - In: Foundations of Management 8 (2016) 1, pp. 7-20
, acquisitions and internal R&D investments. The findings indicate that a firm's absorptive capacity affects the presence of … effects between alliances and acquisitions and between alliances and internal R&D investments. Firms with high absorptive … capacity also exhibit complementarities between acquisitions and additional R&D investments. These results were obtained from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011923119
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An accounting examination of the long-run performance of Greek acquiring firms
Pazarskis, Michail; Lyroudi, Katerina; Pantelidis, … - In: International Journal of Financial Services Management 5 (2011) 2, pp. 159-176
This paper examines empirically the impact of M&As on the post-merger performance of Greek merger-involved firms in the long-run perspective. The post-merger performance of an extensive sample of acquiring listed firms is investigated with accounting data analysis. For the purpose of the study,...
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Blessing or curse?: Domestic plants' survival and employment prospects after foreign acquisitions
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2003
This paper investigates whether the acquisition of a domestic establishment by a foreign owner has any effects on the survival prospects and employment growth of that plant. The analysis uses plant level data for the UK electronics and food industries for the period 1980 to 1993. We control for...
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