This paper deals with the performance of multinational enterprises (MNEs) during the recent financial crisis in the EU regions. According to the existing literature both foreign affiliates and local territories may benefit one from each other. There is a huge literature suggesting that FDI is...

This paper deals with the performance of multinational enterprises (MNEs) during the recent financial crisis in the EU regions. According to the existing literature both foreign affiliates and local territories may benefit one from each other. There is a huge literature suggesting that FDI is...

We find that the deal structure decision to engage in a foreign asset purchase instead of acquiring a foreign target's equity is more likely when bidders are smaller, the bidder's proportion of foreign sales-to-total sales is higher and the target is in an unrelated industry. In addition,...