This study examines the spillover effects of home country institutional and cultural characteristics on the subsidiaries operating in France while they are in the process of making capital structure choices and debt maturity choices. We document that while subsidiaries financing choices are...

Manuscript Type: EmpiricalResearch Question/Issue: We examine determinants of cash holdings in Chinese subsidiaries of U.S. multinational corporations (MNCs), a setting where growth opportunities make cash holdings desirable for investment opportunities but also vulnerable to potential...

Firms have increasingly conducted different stages of production in different countries. In particular, they set up operations in low-cost countries (those operations are referred to as foreign affiliates in those countries) as platforms for export. What is the exporting behavior of foreign...