There has been renewed advocacy for restrictions on international financial flows in the wake of the recent financial crisis. Motivated by this trend, we explore the extent to which cross-border flows affect real economic activity. Unlike previous research efforts that focus on aggregated...

This paper looks into the investment behavior of multinational firms with respect to their locked-out foreign earnings. The focus is on multinational firms subject to credit and deferral home-country taxation such as that of the United States. “Locked-out earnings” refers to the earnings of...

This paper contrasts the investment behavior of different financial institutions in debt securities as a response to price changes. For identification, I use unique security-level data from the German Microdatabase Securities Holdings Statistics. Banks and investment funds respond in a...

We customize factor attribution for quantitative equity portfolios to better align the measurement of factor returns with how factor tilts were taken on. Specifically, we provide a theoretical argument for including the absolute value of factor exposures in the attribution to account for the...

The CIC achieved a 9.33% return on its global investment portfolio in 2013. The portfolio's asset allocation in 2013 revealed an increased allocation of assets to equity investments. Going forward, the CIC plans to focus on investments in the agriculture, high-tech, infrastructure and real...

This paper examines the investment behavior in debt securities across financial institutions with a particular focus on how they respond to price changes. For identification, we use security-level data from the German Microdatabase Securities Holdings Statistics. Our results suggest that banks...

Using hand-collected data on the turnover of mayor and party secretary in 260 Chinese cities, we study the effect of political uncertainty on firm investment. We find that political uncertainty has a negative impact on firm investment. Our baseline results show that firm investment declines when...

We show that, contrary to popular belief, capital markets do not drive short-termism. By comparing public and private European firms in countries with different institutional infrastructures, we show that being listed in the stock market plays a positive role in a firm’s investment policies,...

This paper provides evidence on the impact of internal finance constraints, growth opportunities and debt overhang on the firm-level investment in 14 Asian countries over the period of 1990-2010. We used Panel smooth transition regression (PSTR) that allows for time-varying effects through the...

China Investment Corporation (CIC) achieved a return of 11.7% on its overseas assets (global portfolio) in 2010. In the same year, it made $35.7 billion of new investments and continued to make direct investments in resource and energy projects. In addition, it reorganized its investment...