Foreign Direct Investment vs. Foreiegn Portfolio Investment / Itay Goldstein, Assaf Razin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldstein, Itay.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Razin, Assaf.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w11047.

NBER working paper series no. w11047

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2005.

Summary:

The paper develops a model of foreign direct investments (FDI) and foreign portfolio investments (FPI). FDI is characterized by hands-on management style which enables the owner to obtain relatively refined information about the productivity of the firm. This superiority, relative to FPI, comes with a cost: a firm owned by the relatively well-informed FDI investor has a low resale price because of a "lemons" type asymmetric information between the owner and potential buyers. The model can explain several stylized facts regarding foreign equity flows, such as the larger ratio of FDI to FPI inflows in developing countries relative to developed countries, and the smaller volatility of FDI net inflows relative to FPI net inflows.

Notes:

Print version record

January 2005.