The recent dramatic fall in oil prices has led to extensive capital rationing in international oil companies, and subsequent fierce competition between resource extraction countries to attract scarce investment. This situation is not adequately addressed by the large literature on international...

Ceding ownership to outside investors provides a control dilemma for founders. In less developed capital markets with weaker formal institutions, we argue that retained founder director ownership can lower the transaction costs of external capital. Our argument rests on incomplete contracting...

The objective of this paper is to analyze the procedures used by multinational enterprises to distribute the income generated by its foreign subsidiaries, and how they allocate the taxes paid on this income through the fiscal jurisdiction in which they operate, from the institution based view....

Spanish Abstract:</B> Con base en el universo de emisores del mercado de renta variable en Colombia se construye un índice de precios, retornos y dividendos para el período 1995- 2017. La serie de retornos totales del mercado accionario, que muestra un promedio histórico de 19.07% (0.60 en...

Evidence suggests that international capital markets are neither fully integrated nor completely segmented. There is, however, currently no general method available for computing the required return on corporate investments with such capital markets. This paper uses a model of partially...

Using a large sample of cross-border mergers we measure the effect of a change in location on systematic risk. When a target firm's location moves a large part of its systematic risk switches from being related to its home equity market to that of the acquirer. On average the change in betas is...

Using a framework akin to portfolio theory in asset pricing, we introduce the concept of “political beta” to model firm-level export diversification in response to global political risk. The main implication of our model is that a firm is less responsive to changes in political relations...

Using a large sample of cross-border mergers we measure the effect of a change in location on systematic risk. We document a large, widespread, and robust effect. When a target firm's location moves as a result of an international merger, a large part of its systematic risk switches from being...

We examine the changes in betas resulting from international mergers. We find that the beta with respect to the acquirer's home market rises and that with respect to the target's home market falls. This effect is robust with respect to controls for changes in the operations of the companies...

This paper examines if the type of exchange rate used or size of the movement in the exchange rate matters in estimating exchange-rate exposure of U.S. nonfinancial multinationals. We find that switching from a broad trade-weighted exchange rate to a 2-digit SIC industry exchange rate increases...