Foreign portfolio investment

About: Foreign portfolio investment is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3038 publications have been published within this topic receiving 79748 citations.

Intellectual Property Protection and U.S. Foreign Direct Investment

Abstract: This is one of the first empirical studies of the relationship between a developing country's system of intellectual property protection and the volume and composition of U.S. foreign direct investment in that country. Based on data obtained from almost one hundred U.S. firms regarding their perceptions of how weak or strong such protection is in various countries, the authors' results are consistent with the view that a country's system of intellectual property protection influences the volume and composition of U.S. foreign direct investment. Copyright 1996 by MIT Press.

Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management

Abstract: In the current scenario, investing in the stock markets poses a significant challenge even for seasoned professionals. Not surprisingly, many students find the subject Security Analysis and Portfolio Management difficult. This book offers conceptual clarity and in-depth coverage with a student-friendly approach. Targeted at the postgraduate students of management and commerce, it is an attempt to demystify the difficult subject. The book is divided into three parts. Part I explains the Indian stock market; Part II exclusively deals with the different aspects of security analysis; Part III is devoted to portfolio analysis.

Foreign Direct Investment in the United States: An Analysis by Country of Origin

Abstract: Given the large size and rapid growth of foreign direct investment in the United States, this subject is a central concern of U.S. firms and U.S. government policymakers. This study explores the factors that contribute to the explanation of FDI in the United States by country of origin of investment. Evidence from the past twelve years shows that the main significant positive influences are home country's exports to the United States and home country market size. Significant negative influences include the home country's imports from the United States, the cultural and geographic distances of the home country from the United States, and the exchange rate (fx/$).

Empirical Determinants of Manufacturing Direct Foreign Investment in Developing Countries

Abstract: Nearly all developing countries actively seek capital and technology from the advanced countries. Although private direct foreign investment (mainly in the form of multinational enterprise) is viewed with ambivalence by many developing countries, it is nonetheless true that direct investment remains a substantial source of capital and is sometimes the only source of specific technologies. Indeed, given the slow growth in official external assistance, developing countries are becoming more, not less, dependent on direct foreign investment. While disbursements of official development assistance by the OECD countries rose 43% from 1961 through 1970, direct investment flows rose almost 90% over the same period. In the later year, the flow of direct investment was more than two-fifths of all official assistance, $3.2 billion compared to $7.8 billion.1 Furthermore, the United States and other major capital exporting countries would prefer, for economic as well as ideological reasons, to channel more of their capital outflows to developing countries through private investment. It is highly probable, therefore, that developing countries will continue to rely on direct foreign investment in the foreseeable future to carry out their development programs. It is against this background that the present study seeks to identify the empirical determinants of direct foreign-investment flows in the manufacturing sectors of developing countries. Our purpose is to select from the many economic, social, and political features of a developing country those features that are critical to making that country attractive or unattractive to private foreign investors. Available empirical studies are limited

Transparency and International Portfolio Holdings

Abstract: Does country transparency affect international portfolio investment? We examine this question by constructing new measures of transparency and by making use of a unique micro dataset on portfolio holdings of emerging market funds around the world. We distinguish between government and corporate transparency. There is clear evidence that funds invest systematically less in less transparent countries. There is also some evidence that during crises, funds flee from non-transparent countries to a greater extent.