This study examines how industrial characteristics at home affect Chinese overseas acquisition activities from an industry-level resource-based view. Analyzing data on 512 Chinese overseas acquisition deals across 36 industries in 60 countries over 2003–2008, we find that: (1) firms in industries with higher levels of technology intensity are more likely to acquire foreign firms, while firms in...

Do remittances sent by overseas migrants serve as insurance for recipient households? In a study of how remittances from overseas respond to income shocks experienced by Philippine households, changes in income are found to lead to changes in remittances in the opposite direction, consistent with an insurance motivation. Roughly 60 percent of declines in household income are replaced by remitta...

Both the IPO literature and cross listing literature document that soon after the overseas listing of IPOs, the results are negative abnormal returns, and that phenomenon are “ post listing anomaly”. This paper checks whether there is a post listing anomaly and tries to find reasons for it. The paper concludes that the post listing anomaly does not exist. Further, some companies time the market...

Split Decisions: Family Finance when a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work Labor markets are increasingly global. Overseas work can enrich households but also split them geographically, with ambiguous net effects on decisions about work, investment, and education. These net effects, and their mechanisms, are poorly understood. We study a policy discontinuity in the Philippines that res...

In order to fulfill Canada’s international disaster relief, humanitarian assistance, peacekeeping and peace enforcement roles, the Canadian Forces (CF) rely on a supply network to deploy and sustain its overseas missions. Warehousing, maintenance, transhipment and transportation activities are required to support missions. Currently, the CF supply network does not incorporate any permanent over...

BACKGROUND Air travelers play a significant role in the spread of novel strains of influenza viruses; however, little is understood about the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of international air travelers toward pandemic influenza in relation to public health interventions and personal protective behaviors at overseas destinations. METHODS Prior to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, we sur...

The term Indian diaspora refers to the overseas Indians officially known as Non- Resident (NRIs) or Persons of Origin (PIOs) people India by birth descendants from subcontinents, living outside Republic. Overseas are concerned ethnic groups associated with sensibility, ethnicity, nationality, citizenship having other co-relation life style abroad overseas. conceptual analyses on migration have ...

This paper analyses the role of product differentiation in firms’ choices between exporting and foreign direct investment as ways to supply overseas markets. When the degree of product differentiation is exogenously fixed, we show that the overseas firm favors exporting at low and high degrees of product differentiation while local production is favored at intermediate values: there can be a “d...