Utilizing industry-level foreign direct investment (FDI) from 72 source markets to 122 destination markets between 2003 to 2018, we apply a differences-in-differences approach to evaluate the response of technology FDI to recessions. We find that research and development (R&D) intensive FDI...

Market inefficiency provides an opportunity for rational arbitrage. Nonetheless, investors may not necessarily act on such information even if they are informed. Instead, they extrapolate what the others are doing and decide strategically whether to do rational arbitrage or irrational...

Foreign holdings of sovereign debt in emerging markets (EMs) shift from foreign currency (FC) to local currency (LC), especially after the global financial crisis. We show that such a dissipation of original sin enlarges deviations from covered interest rate parity (CIP) in EMs, as FC debt is...

Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) are often considered long-term and less sensitive to global shocks as they involve large amounts of capital investment that are costly to reverse. This study examines whether a pandemic arbitrage through “distance” in COVID-19 infection rates impacts FDI....