relative weight of global and country-specific factors in explaining capital flows to Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela …

This paper studies the trading behavior and performance of foreign investors with different management styles. The … that the aggregate under-performance of foreign investors is attributable to foreign passive funds, that is, those that …. Meanwhile, foreign active funds trade at more favorable prices and display higher risk-adjusted returns than any other investor …

This paper investigates the factors associated with foreign direct investment "surges" and "stops," defined as sharp … increases and decreases, respectively, of gross foreign direct investment inflows to the developing world and differentiated … differ from those in the literature on surges and stops and are particularly relevant in countries where foreign direct …

Which foreign direct investments are most affected by political instability? Analysis of quarterly greenfield …. Conversely, how intensified political instability affects aggregate foreign direct investment is critically contingent on the …

country risk, although country risk is a good predictor of investment levels for both contractual forms. Although foreign …

stability. By distinguishing between foreign direct investment and portfolio and other investments, this paper studies the … positively on the volatilities of both foreign direct investment and portfolio and other inflows. Second, output volatility … decreasing function of the share of foreign direct investment in total capital inflows, for low values of that share. The data …

the pattern of actual industrial use of antidumping in nine of the major "new user" developing countries - Argentina …

Like many other developing countries, South Asian nations have been experiencing increased foreign direct investment … developed countries. Nonetheless, South Asia's inflows of foreign direct investment remain the lowest relative to gross domestic … product among developing country regions. Why are South Asia's foreign direct investment inflows so low and what lessons can …