This study examines whether a stronger corporate governance enforcement regime influences the investment decisions of foreign portfolio investors in an emerging market context. Using a natural experiment provided by an Indian corporate governance regulatory reform introduced in 2000, but for...

We investigate the impact CSR on the shareholder wealth effects of FDI announcements during 2003-2014 using a sample of 2,488 firms from 48 home countries investing into 121 host countries. We find that firms with superior CSR performance do not experience a significant stock market reaction to...

[enter Abstract Body]We investigate the shareholder wealth effects of 306 foreign direct investment (FDI) announcements by UK firms in seventy-five emerging markets (EM). Our results show that acquirers enjoy highly significant gains during the announcement period of FDI. Perhaps surprisingly,...