of imports and the degree of differentiation across inputs in a sector, for which I find strong support in the data. Moreover, imperfect competition establishes a link between FDI liberalization and optimal pricing: suppliers find optimal to reduce their prices in response to the possibility of...

This paper starts by unveiling a new empirical regularity: multinational corporations systematically tend to exhibit higher stock market returns and earnings yields than non-multinational firms. Within non-multinationals, exporters tend to exhibit higher earnings yields and returns than firms...

A large body of empirical work documents that prices of traded goods change by a smaller proportion than real exchange rates between the trading countries (incomplete pass-through). The wedge between exchange rates and relative prices also varies a cross countries (pricing-to-market). I present...

We investigate theoretically and empirically the relationship between the geographic structure of a multinational corporation and its risk premium. Our structural model suggests two channels. On the one hand, multinational activity offers diversification benefits: risk premia should be higher...

15% of the loans in the US are held by foreign banking institutions, headquartered in more than 50 countries. While earlier research documented the entry mode of foreign institutions in the United States, very little is known about foreign banks' motive to enter the U.S. We address this gap by...

to risk: following a negative shock, they are reluctant to exit the foreign market because they would forgo the option premium (sunk cost) that they paid to become multinationals. The theory provides a complementary explanation for the cross section of returns by exploiting the production side...

This paper starts by unveiling a strong empirical regularity: multinational corporations exhibit higher stock market returns and earning yields than non-multinational firms. Within non-multinationals, exporters exhibit higher earning yields and returns than firms selling only in their domestic...

15% of the loans in the US are held by foreign banking institutions, headquartered in more than 50 countries. Using bank-level data, we present novel stylized facts describing characteristics of foreign institutions and compare them to the incumbent set of banks, distinguishing foreign banks by...

I propose a general equilibrium framework where firms decide whether to outsource or integrate input manufacturing, domestically or abroad. By outsourcing, firms may benefit from suppliers' technologies, but pay mark-up prices. By sourcing intrafirm, they save on mark-ups and pay possibly lower...

This paper investigates theoretically and empirically the relationship between the geographic structure of a multinational corporation and its stock market returns. We use a structural model to identify two main channels through which the fact of being a multinational firm affects returns. On...