This paper examines the announcement effects of US-Chinese joint ventures and explores several firm-specific factors which may affect the size of the abnormal returns. A sample of 103 joint ventures during the 1973-1993 period and eight variables, including current ratio, debt ratio, total asset...

We investigate the shareholder wealth effects of 306 foreign direct investment (FDI) announcements by UK firms in seventy-five emerging markets (EM). Our results show that acquirers enjoy highly significant gains during the announcement period of FDI. Perhaps surprisingly, the highest gains are...