This study investigates the presence of panel effects in the foreign bank investment decision in the USA. To accomplish this purpose, it tests a model of the effect of home country factors on foreign bank investment in the USA. The relationship between home country factors and foreign bank...

The recent financial crisis has clearly shown that the relationship between bank internationalization and risk is complex. Multinational banks can benefit from portfolio diversification, reducing their overall riskiness, but this effect can be offset by incentives going in the opposite...

This article analyses the exit decision in the European venture capital market, studying <italic>when to exit</italic> and how it interacts with the <italic>exit form</italic>. Using a competing risks model we study the impact on the exit decision of the characteristics of venture capital investors, of their investments and of...

The banking literature focuses extensively on the phenomenon of bank entry and pays less attention to the factors driving the continuation of banking activities in foreign markets. In this paper, we analyze this important, but overlooked, issue by constructing a unique database of foreign banks...

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>We study the factors that determine the debt funding of subsidiaries of multinational banks. Our findings indicate that the funding of subsidiaries is determined by the internalization advantages of the parent bank and the home country, in addition to the...</p>

Este artigo analisa as saídas de investimentos de capital de risco em Portugal, abordando a relação existente entre as formas de saída e a assimetria de informação a elas associadas. A hipótese central é a de que a ocorrência de saídas parciais está associada à sinalização da...

This study looks into the factors that explain foreign direct investment in Brazil by country of origin of investment. Based on a sample of more than 100 countries that invested and have not yet invested in Brazil, multiple estimation techniques, such as the Tobit, Heckit and Probit, are used to...

Internalisation theory explains how the boundaries of firms are set at the margin where the advantages of internal coordination are just offset by the costs of supplanting external markets. Internalisation is a general principle that can be used to explain the boundaries of any institution in...