This study constructs a firm-level measure of large foreign ownership (LFO) and investigates its impact on stock return volatility in 31 emerging markets. We find a negative relationship between LFO and volatility, even after controlling for potential endogeneity and the impact of major domestic...

This paper examines the effect of host-location financial development (HFD) on foreign direct investment (FDI) in 166 Chinese cities between 2003 and 2009. Using pooled panel and generalized two-stage least square estimators, we find a complementary HFD-FDI nexus, and that this is particularly...