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REVIEW OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
Volume 19, Issue 2, Pages 387-399Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/rode.12149
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We analyze the evolution of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to developing and emerging countries around financial crises. We empirically examine the Fire-Sale FDI hypothesis and describe the pattern of FDI inflows surrounding financial crises. We also add a more granular detail about the types of financial crises and their potentially differential effects on FDI. We distinguish between mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and greenfield investment, as well as between horizontal (tariff jumping) and vertical (integrating production stages) FDI. We find that financial crises have a strong negative effect on inward FDI in our sample. Crises are also shown to reduce the value of horizontal and vertical FDI. We do not find empirical evidence of fire-sale FDI; on the contrary, financial crises are shown to affect FDI flows and M&A activity negatively.
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