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How Do Financial Systems Affect Economic Performance?
Mayer, Colin; Carlin, Wendy - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1999
This paper examines the relation between financial, corporate and legal systems, and economic performance in different countries. It reviews international comparisons that undertake detailed analyses of individual, developed countries and studies that use large, cross-country data banks,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010661381
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Multinational Ownership and Subsidiary Investment
Mayer, Colin; Carlin, Wendy - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008
This paper examines how foreign ownership affects the investment decisions of subsidiary firms using a new dataset of … listed-parent - listed-subsidiary pairs.  We find that improvements in the investment opportunities of parent firms have a … negative effect on the investment of their subsidiaries, after controlling for the investment opportunities of the subsidiary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004467
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Finance, Investment and Growth
Mayer, Colin; Carlin, Wendy - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1999
there is a relation in terms of both industry growth rates and shares of output devoted to R&D. Investment in R&D rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133059
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Capital markets, ownership and distance
Carlin, Wendy; Charlton, Andrew; Mayer, Colin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
This paper uses a new data-set to examine how internal capital markets and foreign ownership affect investment. Our … data allow us to compare investment behaviour of listed subsidiaries with stand-alone firms while controlling for … investment opportunities of parent and subsidiary firms. We evaluate how the size of ownership and the geographical proximity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884649
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Capital Markets, Ownership and Distance
Carlin, Wendy; Charlton, Andrew; Mayer, Colin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper uses a new data-set to examine how internal capital markets and foreign ownership affect investment. Our … data allow us to compare investment behaviour of listed subsidiaries with stand-alone firms while controlling for … investment opportunities of parent and subsidiary firms. We evaluate how the size of ownership and the geographical proximity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124253
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Finance, Investment and Growth
Carlin, Wendy; Mayer, Colin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
there is a relation in terms of both industry growth rates and shares of output devoted to R&D. Investment in R&D rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114188
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Multinational Ownership and Subsidiary Investment
Carlin, Wendy; Charlton, Andrew; Mayer, Colin - Finance Research Centre, Oxford University - 2008
This paper examines how foreign ownership affects the investment decisions of subsidiary firms using a new dataset of … listed-parent − listed-subsidiary pairs. We find that improvements in the investment opportunities of parent firms have a … negative effect on the investment of their subsidiaries, after controlling for the investment opportunities of the subsidiary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005730014