We integrate international business theory on foreign direct investment (FDI) with institutional theory on intellectual … property rights (IPR) to explain characteristics and behaviour of foreign investment subsidiaries in Central East Europe, a … IPR regimes in a selection of CEE countries as a factor for corporate governance and control of foreign invested …

heterogeneity of the transition economies into our analysis. We find that foreign banks target relatively large and efficient banks …. However, when foreign banks enter more developed transition economies that have made progress in economic reform, they acquire …

This paper examines the firm-level determinants of foreign acquisitions of New Zealand companies, and the consequences … foreign firms tend to target high-performing New Zealand companies. Acquired firms then exhibit higher growth in average wages … intensity. We find no evidence of differential survival rates for recently acquired foreign firms. …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) projects are assumed to be accompanied by potential external effects - so-called FDI … separately. The results indicate that there is a small negative spillover effect from foreign presence within industries across … Latin American countries. Furthermore, I find that the negative intra-industry spillover is caused by wholly owned foreign …

In this study the impact of democratic and non-democratic regime (pre and post September 11, 2001seenarios) on foreign …-correlation and ARCH effect and to model the conditional variance of FDI. It is found that foreign direct investment in Pakistan … thereafter war on terror has increased the conditional volatility of foreign direct investment and has statistically significant …

-intensive manufacturing sectors - ICT, pharmaceuticals and medical devices - and two of the substantially foreign-owned internationally traded …

We estimate the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) acquisitions on firm-average and worker-specific wages using …-long panel with 4,926 foreign acquisitions to match on pre-acquisition data and to control for fixed effects for firms, detailed … on average wages. In an extension to 983 foreign acquisitions subsequently divested to domestic owners, we find that much …

The paper examines the impact of exchange rates on foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into the United States in …