This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature explaining financial FDI from the perspective of the investing country (home). We conclude that the existing theoretical paradigms need to be adapted to explain the recent surge in international banks' local operations in the financial...

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged global economies with unparalleled negative shock. Asia and Latin America have gone through a number of financial crises in the last few decades but they have addressed those crises rather differently, leading to different growth trajectories after the...

In this paper we critically review the relevant information and literature and that can enhance the feasibility and the successful implementation of cross-border infrastructure projects. We provide detailed information concerning FDI into the major emerging regions: East Asia/Pacific, Latin...

Three important external determinants of sovereign spreads in emerging countries are reviewed: balance sheet effects, global risk aversion and contagion. While there are ways to reduce the detrimental impact of balance sheet effects, these are either hard to implement or costly. Insurance...

The new Basel II Framework will be important for emerging countries as a big part of them has declared to be willing to introduce such Framework in a more or less near future and international banks that are operating in these economies will abide to the new Framework through its holding. Basel...