We survey several key mechanisms that explain the composition of international capital flows: foreign direct investment, foreign portfolio investment and debt flows (bank loans and bonds). In particular, we focus on the following market frictions: asymmetric information in capital markets and...

Two jurisdictions compete to capture the rents of a large multinational enterprise (MNE) which invests locally and which is partly owned by local investors. The MNE contributes to local welfare by tax payments and dividends, and it has private information about the efficiency of the operations...

Upon completion of overseas acquisitions, Western firms typically hire Chinese locals or expatriates to run their Chinese operations. This is an important consideration because a Western executive’s managerial style may impact Chinese employee behavior differently than a Chinese executive’s...

Complex investments are investments that are difficult to value in the short-term. In this paper, we analyze the incentives of a manager who is compensated based on short-term stock prices to invest in complex long-term investments. In particular, we explore how the manager's investment decision...

Although outsourcing vs. vertical integration is generally treated as a binary choice in international trade literature, firm-level data reveal that inputs can be imported both within and across firms' boundaries, even within narrowly defined industries from the same host country. This paper...

In a Vickrey auction, if one bidder can invest to increase his value, the combined mechanism including investments is still fully optimal. By contrast, for any β 1, there exist monotone allocation rules that guarantee a fraction β of the allocative optimum in the worst case, but such that the...

The relationship between investment efficiency and investment transparency is investigated using a sample of Australian listed company capital expenditure announcements between 2008 and 2014. We suggest two opposing hypotheses to explain why investment efficiency may influence the...

We analyze a model where different traders are informed of different fundamentals that affect the security value. We identify a source for strategic complementarities in trading and information acquisition: The aggressive trading on information about one fundamental reduces the uncertainty in...