Credit Conditions and Foreign Direct Investment During the Global Financial Crisis

Desbordes, Rodolphe and Wei, Shang-Jin (2014) Credit Conditions and Foreign Direct Investment During the Global Financial Crisis. Preprint / Working Paper. The World Bank. (http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/10/...)

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Abstract

This paper investigates the effect that tight credit conditions had on outward foreign direct investment flows during the 2008-2010 global financial crisis. A difference-in-differences approach is used to isolate a "credit channel" impact of the global financial crisis on foreign direct investment. The global financial crisis had a stronger negative impact on the relative volume of outward foreign direct investment in financially vulnerable sectors in more financially developed countries, especially if these countries also experienced a banking crisis. These results suggest that lack of access to external finance can partly explain the drop in foreign direct investment during the global financial crisis.

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Desbordes, Rodolphe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8923-5401 and Wei, Shang-Jin;
  • Item type:Monograph(Preprint / Working Paper)
    ID code:54215
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    1 October 2014
    Published
    Subjects:Social Sciences > Finance
    Department:Strathclyde Business School > Economics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:08 Sep 2015 10:56
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 16:03
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/54215
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