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- 29 Mar 2007
- Conference Presentation
American Direct Investment in Argentina (1900-1930)
By: Andrea M. Lluch
Lluch, Andrea M. "American Direct Investment in Argentina (1900-1930)." Paper presented at the Talks for Peace, Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 29, 2007.
- June 2008
- Article
Capital Structure with Risky Foreign Investment
By: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.
Desai, Mihir A., C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. "Capital Structure with Risky Foreign Investment." Journal of Financial Economics 88, no. 3 (June 2008): 534–553.
- Research Summary
Profitable Souls: Foreign Investment and the Fate of Human Rights
By: Debora L. Spar
This is a project about foreign investment, about what happens when big multinational firms invest in small, poor, and often nasty places. Typically, most observers assume that this is a largely negative relationship: that multinationals exploit the local population,... View Details
- January 2024
- Technical Note
Hedging Currency Risk of Foreign Investments
By: Wenxin Du and Luis M. Viceira
Du, Wenxin, and Luis M. Viceira. "Hedging Currency Risk of Foreign Investments." Harvard Business School Technical Note 224-039, January 2024.
- 2005
- Working Paper
Capital Structure with Risky Foreign Investment
By: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.
- 2005
- Working Paper
Capital Structure with Risky Foreign Investment
By: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.
Desai, Mihir A., C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. "Capital Structure with Risky Foreign Investment." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 12276, January 2005. (June).
Other Publications
Desai, Mihir. "Reform Alternatives for the Corporate Tax." Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures, Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. (Government testimony, May 9, 2006.)
- September–October 1995
- Article
Is Foreign Infrastructure Investment Still Risky?
By: L. T. Wells Jr. and E. S. Gleason
Wells, L. T., Jr., and E. S. Gleason. "Is Foreign Infrastructure Investment Still Risky?" Harvard Business Review 73, no. 5 (September–October 1995): 44–55.
- 2006
- Working Paper
How Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages
By: Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Selin Sayek
Alfaro, Laura, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek. "How Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-013, August 2006. (Also NBER Working Paper No. w12522, September 2006. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 12522, September 2006)
- 05 Oct 2013
- News
The Returns on Foreign Aid Investment
- 1988
- Article
Foreign Multinational Investment in Britain before 1945
By: G. Jones
Jones, G. "Foreign Multinational Investment in Britain before 1945." Economic History Review 41 (1988): 429–453.
- April 2022
- Article
Going Out or Opting Out? Capital, Political Vulnerability, and the State in China's Outward Investment
By: Meg Rithmire
How do state-business relations interact with outward investment in authoritarian regimes? This paper examines this question in the context of China’s rapid transformation into a major capital exporter. While most political economy scholarship focuses on firms’... View Details
Keywords: Outward Investment; Capital Controls; Corruption; Foreign Direct Investment; Political Economy; State-owned Enterprises; Investment; Global Range; Capital; Globalization; Policy; Government and Politics; China
Rithmire, Meg. "Going Out or Opting Out? Capital, Political Vulnerability, and the State in China's Outward Investment." Comparative Politics 54, no. 3 (April 2022): 477–499.
- 2014
- Other Unpublished Work
Government-held Equity in Foreign Investment Projects: Good for Host Countries?
By: Louis T. Wells
Host governments have often sought some equity in mining and other foreign investment projects, but as shareholders they have rarely gained what they anticipated. Only in special cases might the benefits to governments outweigh the risks and often unanticipated costs... View Details
Wells, Louis T. "Government-held Equity in Foreign Investment Projects: Good for Host Countries?" Columbia FDI Perspectives, No. 114, Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment, February 2014.
- Research Summary
Foreign investment in large projects in the Third World
By: Louis T. Wells
Professor Wells is examining the reasons for instability in foreign investment in infrastructure and other large projects in the Third World, why outcomes differ in different projects, and the tension between the need on the part of investors for credible commitments... View Details
- Article
The End of Foreign Investment in Russia?
By: Raymond Fisman and Eric D. Werker
Fisman, Raymond, and Eric D. Werker. "The End of Foreign Investment in Russia?" Forbes.com (October 13, 2009).
- September–October 2012
- Article
Egalitarianism, Cultural Distance, and Foreign Direct Investment: A New Approach
By: Jordan I. Siegel, Amir N. Licht and Shalom H. Schwartz
This study addresses an apparent impasse in the research on organizations' responses to cultural distance. Using historically motivated instrumental variables, we observe that egalitarianism distance has a negative causal impact on FDI flows. This effect is robust to a... View Details
Keywords: FDI; Neo-institutionalism; Multinational Firm; Cultural Distance; Egalitarianism; Regulatory Arbitrage; Pollution Haven Hypothesis; Foreign Direct Investment; Global Strategy; Culture; Entrepreneurship
Siegel, Jordan I., Amir N. Licht, and Shalom H. Schwartz. "Egalitarianism, Cultural Distance, and Foreign Direct Investment: A New Approach." Organization Science 23, no. 5 (September–October 2012). (This study addresses an apparent impasse in the research on organizations' responses to cultural distance. Using historically motivated instrumental variables, we observe that egalitarianism distance has a negative causal impact on FDI flows. This effect is robust to a broad set of competing accounts, including the effects of other cultural dimensions, various features of the prevailing legal and regulatory regimes, other features of the institutional environment, economic development, and time-invariant unobserved characteristics of origin and host countries. We further show that egalitarianism correlates in a conceptually compatible way with an array of organizational practices pertinent to firms' interactions with non-financial stakeholders, such that national differences in these egalitarianism-related features may affect firms' international expansion decisions.)
- Research Summary
How Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages (with Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Selin Sayek)
By: Laura Alfaro
The empirical literature finds mixed evidence on the
existence of positive productivity externalities in the host country
generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a novel
mechanism, which emphasizes the role of local financial markets in
enabling... View Details
- 09 Sep 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Disintermediation of Financial Markets: Direct Investing in Private Equity
- March 2006 (Revised November 2010)
- Background Note
Protecting Foreign Investors
Describes the emergence of several kinds of efforts to assure the safety of foreign investment in emerging markets: international arbitration, expanded official political risk insurance, credit from government agencies, and intervention by investors' home governments.... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Risk Management; Emerging Markets; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Government Relations; Safety
Wells, Louis T., Jr. "Protecting Foreign Investors." Harvard Business School Background Note 706-044, March 2006. (Revised November 2010.)
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid
promoter of development? Foreign investment will play a small part, possibly a catalytic one, but at the end of the day, countries will get richer due to the activity of their domestic private sector. That... View Details