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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...
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In the past fifteen years, cross-border mergers and acquisitions had an ever increasing role in the process of bank internationalization. Although a consensus view has developed on the determinants of a bank's decision to expand abroad and on the determinant of the patterns of expansion, the...
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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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The choice between foreign direct investment (FDI) and exports has been a recurrent theme in the literature on international trade, yet few studies have analysed this choice at the level of the individual firm. This paper uses a new dataset to study the FDI-versus-exports decision for banks. We...
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The presence of other firms in a foreign market can have a double-edged effect on the profitability of new entrants. Firstly, a larger presence of other firms implies more competition and thus lowers the earnings prospects of new entrants. Secondly, there might be positive spill-over effects...
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The outward Foreign Direct Investment is important for the sustainability of the banking sector’s development of China. The paper examines the location determinants of outward Foreign Direct Investment by state-owned Chinese banks during 2003-2015 with a set of negative binomial panel...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260539