Financial Crisis of 2008 and Outward Foreign Investments from China and India

We show that outward investment by Chinese firms with resource and asset seeking motives Indian market-seeking diverged after the financial crisis of 2008, due to different underlying financing structure their investments. faced export market contraction externally cut back on investments as sales revenues shrank. In contrast, relied debt finance seek out international assets expanded targets became cheaper reliance leverage inured fluctuations stock markets other implications crisis.