We employ a unique data set containing bank-specific information to explore how foreign bank entry determines credit allocation in emerging markets. We investigate the impact of the mode of foreign entry (greenfield or takeover) on banks' portfolio allocation to borrowers with different degrees...

The classical criteria for investment projects valuation, although easy to apply, have the disadvantage of not reflecting the complexity of the social and economic phenomena implied by these projects. This study emphasizes some aspects that should be carefully taken into account in the valuation...

This Selected Issues paper examines developments in Estonia’s expanding net external obligations, as well as in domestic income flows and balance sheets. The paper discusses external current account and net international investment positions. Domestic investment and saving and balance...

From the middle of the past decade a relatively new phenomenon – a large-scale direct investment outflow (which amount is comparable to FDI inflow to Russia) – is observed in the Russian economy and those investments mainly go to M&A abroad. Special attention is paid to an analysis of...

Economic growth is widely perceived as a major policy instrument in reducing childhood undernutrition in India. The association between changes in state per capita income and the risk of undernutrition among children in India were assessed. Data for this analysis came from three cross-sectional...

In this paper will be applied some principles and methods from econophysics in the case of the direct foreign investitions (D.F.I.), particularised for the Greenfield type, and mixed firms of trade and industrial production (Joint Ventures). To this aim will be used some similarities and...

Industry clusters (ICs) have attracted much attention in the recent past. Besides the ever-growing academic interest, ICs have become primary targets of development policy, similarly to foreign direct investment (FDI) attraction and the development of local linkages (for example, supplier...

В статье рассмотрены современные тенденции развития мирового рынка олова, акцентируется высокая инвестиционная привлекательность олова не только как...

В статье рассмотрены современные тенденции развития мирового рынка олова, акцентируется высокая инвестиционная привлекательность олова не только как...

In this paper we investigate whether better information about the macroeconomic environment of an economy has a positive impact on its capital inflows, namely portfolio and foreign direct investment (FDI). The purpose of our study is to explicitly quantify information asymmetries by compliance...