Foreign Direct Investment - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market

managers who trade in foreign debt as well as for emerging market countries. "The cost of funds will go up," naysayers may cry. "We won't get any money; no one will invest in us." “If you... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro

Roger B. Smith

Smith made sweeping changes at the auto giant, which had become complacent in its success and was losing share to foreign imports. Smith instituted a barrage of controversial changes at GM that included forming strategic joint ventures... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

03 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

casebook. The cases in these modules illustrate the range of issues that arise in multinational financial management—from managing foreign currency exposures to determining a subsidiary's capital structure to valuing an View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

17 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 17

explanations of workplace silence. We discuss implications of these results for theory and practice and suggest directions for future research. Paper not available Working PapersPlatform Envelopment Authors:Thomas Eisenmann, Geoffrey... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

March 2005 (Revised June 2005)
Case

Capital Controls in Chile in the 1990s (B)

By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Governance Controls; Financial Crisis; Foreign Direct Investment; Currency Exchange Rate; Inflation and Deflation; Demand and Consumers; Interest Rates; Capital; System; Central Banking; Chile

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03 Apr 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

downstream exposure, we construct firm-specific exogenous credit supply shocks and estimate their direct and indirect effects on real activity. Credit supply shocks have sizable direct and downstream... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

decentralized structure, IBM continued to expand further, acquiring ten new plants in a span of 6 years and increasing foreign investment. Watson also continued to invest heavily in research and development,... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

21 Sep 2015
News

Funding Progress Back Home

platform that facilitates diaspora and impact investing in Africa. Formerly a portfolio manager with the World Bank, where he helped African and other emerging nations set up foreign exchange and asset... View Details

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Company Filings and Annual Reports | Baker Library

investment decisions. Public companies of specific asset size listed in the United States (including foreign firms) must file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically.... View Details

29 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

variability in the importance of their posts. There are alternative routes to career success: officers of higher initial ability are more likely to invest in developing expertise, but officers who belong to the same caste as the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2002
News

Bozidar Djelic

central bank on rhythm guitar and Serbia's minister for foreign economic relations on lead vocals. Djelic himself, along with several other government ministers, sang back-up. According to the Wall Street Journal, the party broke up at 4... View Details

06 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

This result is robust across different geographic regions and industries and holds for U.S. and non-U.S. lenders, including those with little direct exposure to the U.S. economy. Local EME lenders do not offset the View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Aug 2022
News

Open Market

first focusing on scaling operations and then becoming a partner at Google Capital (now CapitalG), investing in late-stage tech companies and helping founders grow their businesses. The experience at Google was revelatory, with Howard... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Keith Negley; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

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CRSP: historical coverage

Receipts, etc.) Closed-End Mutual Funds Foreigns on NYSE, NYSE MKT, NASDAQ, Arca and Bats Americus Trust Components (Primes and Scores) HOLDRs Trusts REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts) CRSP is available... View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

base. As a result, they get cost savings, and we get sales.” Welcome to the new reality in U.S. manufacturing, where, more than ever, intense foreign competition is driving product and strategy innovations. Even those firms without View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

25 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Adjusting the Fit for Government

productivity revolution due to the loss of skills in society. "The other key underpinning is education," he continued. "In South Africa in particular, the legacy of apartheid was extremely destructive, and human capital continues to be underdeveloped.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Historical Research - India

the modules of the World Newspaper Archive, providing more than 400,000 fully searchable pages of newspapers published in South Asia dating from the 19th century. Content includes titles published in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in English, Gujarati and Bengali. View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

City of Dreams

“port city” will rise here, featuring office space, housing, and retail—essentially, an independent, international financial center with a direct link to Colombo’s central business district. Fernando mentions additional View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Rwanda

the current state of entrepreneurship in Rwanda and the direction the country is heading. Industry and market research EMIS... View Details

22 Apr 2015
Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

Greek companies to simulate growth in the economy, another mechanism to do this could have been foreign direct investment (FDI). Again, the news was not good, with no positive... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

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