This study aims to understand what factors allow the subsidiaries of emerging multinationals to develop innovations that are used by the parent company, that is, what factors drive reverse innovation. The respondents of the survey were Brazilian multinationals with manufacturing activities or...

The rise of new multinationals in countries like Brazil provides an opportunity to revisit and carefully construct theories of how firms internationalize, a topic on which extant theory is weak. Brazilian firms are “infant multinationals”, unlike developed country firms that are “mature...

This paper studies how international capital flows affect domestic credit and money holdings. While previous studies have focused on credit growth and highlighted the importance of the equity/debt mix of flows, this paper shows that there are also important implications of flows going to...

Capital flows into the euro area were particularly large in the mid-2000s and the share of foreign holdings of euro area securities increased substantially between the introduction of the euro and the outbreak of the global financial crisis. We show that the increase in foreign holdings of euro...

We apply the cognitive hierarchy model of Camerer et al. (Q J Econ 119(3):861–898, <CitationRef CitationID="CR1">2004</CitationRef>)—where players have different levels of reasoning—to Huck et al. (Games Econ Behav 38:240–264, <CitationRef CitationID="CR12">2002</CitationRef>) discrete version of Hamilton and Slutsky (Games Econ Behav 2:29–46, <CitationRef CitationID="CR19">1990</CitationRef>) action commitment...</citationref></citationref></citationref>

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>Using plant-level data for Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper provides evidence that government control over banks leads to significant political influence over the real decisions of firms. I find that firms eligible for government bank lending expand employment in...</p>

This paper applies the cognitive hierarchy model of Camerer, Ho and Chong (2004) to the action commitment game of Hamilton and Slutsky (1990). The model generates the heterogeneity of behavior reported in Huck, Müeller and Normann (2002). The model predicts the spike in the leadership quantity...