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Gauging foreign (domestic) biases as the deviation of foreign (domestic) investors' actual portfolio allocation of a bond market from the same bond market's weight in global bond market, we investigate the determinants of foreign and domestic investment biases in 41 global bond markets. We find...
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This commentary reviews the status of the global use of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), including in the US, and offers thoughts on prospects for global financial reporting. Many countries require or permit the use of IFRS, but the goal of truly global, high quality financial...
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The past two decades have seen a rapid rise in large-scale, state-led transnational investment from countries as different as China, Norway and Russia. By bundling economic resources, these countries have entered global markets through massive state-led investments. This transformation of states...
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This paper seeks to explain the transnationalization of financial reporting by corporations. Specifically it considers how the status of International Financial Reporting Standards - constructed and issued by a private organization: the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) – changed...
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Since the beginning of the financial crisis, multinational banks have been accused of being among the major causes of the financial system's destabilization. But the available empirical evidence on the relationship between international diversification, value creation and riskiness of financial...
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This paper provides evidence that the formation of global supply chain partnerships predicts significant increases, relative to otherwise similar firms, in cross-border financing. Our findings are detected in all three major financing markets - equities, syndicated loans, and public debt - as...
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Efficient financial globalization should reward high-skilled financial institutions and punish low-skilled institutions …. We show that the globalization of the mutual fund industry in the beginning of the century has exhibited the opposite … pattern: low-skilled companies can benefit from globalization by catering to the demand of unsophisticated investors for …
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We examine the effect of competition on exchange rate exposure using survey data from 55 countries. We find that exposure increases with the intensity of competition. Exposure is higher when firms face price competition in international and domestic product markets and when rivals compete using...
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The article proposes to apply the global CAPM instead of the traditional CAPM (local CAPM) used in the practice of enterprise valuation, because the increasing integration of capital markets requires a model with an international context and the local CAPM only assumes an exclusively national...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to economic and health crises (“twin crises”) worldwide. Using a sample of firms from 74 countries over the period January to August 2020, we examine stock price reactions of multinational corporations (MNCs) and purely domestic companies (DCs) to the crisis. We...
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