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Discourses on globalization and transnational corporations are divided. One school of thought supports corporate activities in improving a state, while another stands against corporations, hoping to protect developing states from corporate misdeeds. This paper examines the impact of foreign...

This dissertation studies how the evolution of information technology could facilitate bilateral FDI activities, the channels for international R&D spillovers, and which exchange rates matter for FDI.Applying an IT-augmented gravity specification to bilateral FDI data from 1980 to 1997, the...

Thesis (MPhD)--University of South Australia, 2007.

A fundamental unresolved issue is whether information asymmetries underlie investors' predisposition to invest close to home (i.e., domestically or locally). The authors conduct experiments in the United States and Canada to investigate agents' portfolio allocation decisions, controlling for the...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) began to flow into China with advent of reforms in 1978. Following a period of relatively slow growth, FDI inflows to China picked up after 1990, as China surpassed every other nation but the United States in attracting foreign investment. In particular, coastal...

Several years ago, the Dallas Fed's annual report featured an essay entitled "The Churn." The churn is our term for what economist Joseph Schumpeter called "creative destruction." A dynamic economy like ours can grow and make room for the new only if we allow parts of the economy to shrink....

Most stock market investors believe that the ideal equity portfolio should be well diversified to lower overall portfolio risk. International financial markets offer a means for diversification, but most investors do not exploit this risk-sharing opportunity and instead hold large shares of...