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JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS
卷 42, 期 3, 页码 652-669出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2013.06.002
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Bank finance; Bond finance; Productivity; Risk; Foreign direct investment
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This study investigates how heterogeneous firms choose their lenders when they raise external finance for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and how the choice of financing structure affects FDI activities. We establish an asymmetric information model to analyze why certain firms use private bank loans while others use public bonds to finance foreign production. The hidden information is the productivity shock to FDI. Banks are willing to monitor the risk of FDI, while bondholders are not; hence, banks act as a costly middleman that enables firms to avoid excessive risk. We show that firms' productivity levels, the riskiness of FDI, and the relative costs of bank finance and bond finance are three key determinants of the firm's financing choice. Countries with higher productivity, higher bank costs, or investment in less risky destinations, use more bond finance than bank finance. These results are supported by evidence from OECD countries. Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (3) (2014) 652-669. University of Munich, Germany; China Europe International Business School, China; Capital University of Economics and Business, China. (C) 2013 Association for Comparative Economic Studies Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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