Operating performance of a firm is dependent on many factors of which foreign investment today is considered a highly crucial one. This is more so in a developing open economy like India where domestic capital base for targeted growth is relatively weak. Evidences of relationship between foreign...

This paper links the foreign economic engagement of India's states with the literature on federalism, thereby contributing to an understanding of the political economy of FDI inflows in a parliamentary federal system. More specifically, it studies subnational governments' international...

We study the period of the COVID-19 pandemic to assess the impact of foreign institutional investor (FII) flows on asset prices in an emerging market. Using a dataset of stock-level foreign fund flows of Indian equities, we show that stocks experiencing abnormally high innovations in foreign...

In recent years developing countries have emerged as significant participants in the OFDI (outward foreign direct investment) activities having the strategic asset seeking motive. Such OFDI which is assets exploiting cum augmenting involves potential two way cross border knowledge flows. This...

Multinational companies (MNCs) from emerging markets (EMs) are new and very dynamic actors on the global scene. Starting from the late 1970s a strand of literature flourished on Third World multinationals (Lall, 1983a). More recently, the increasing expansion abroad by multinationals based in...

The rise of new global contender MNEs from large emerging markets (EMs) is leading to significant structural transformation of global industries, international institutions, and global power (re)arrangement. Outward FDI undertaken by these EM multinational enterprises (MNEs) is growing fast as...

Ever since the transfer pricing rules introduced in India and China they have undergone various updates based upon the requirements and need of countries and trade organisations. Concepts of the APA and SHRs have also been incorporated in their transfer pricing legislations and both countries...

International transfer pricing controversies and subsequent litigations with taxation authorities have become the major issues in foreign investments and international technology transfers. Disputes between the taxation authorities and MNCs are mounting up as most of the MNCs are now contesting...

The transfer pricing regulations in India came into force in 2001 with their effective audits beginning from the 2003 onwards. The Central Board of Direct Taxation has constituted a special cell for all transfer pricing audits. Over the past four years or so, there has been a significant...

The Government of India for the first time in 2001 introduced the transfer price regulations in the country with the transfer pricing audits effectively beginning from 2003 onwards. The onerous documentation requirements and stringent penalties prescribed by the regulations were a cause of...