Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance

Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2012, vol. 4, issue 3, 30-55

Abstract: We examine the differential response of establishments to the recent global financial crisis with particular emphasis on the role of foreign ownership. Using a worldwide establishment panel dataset, we investigate how multinational subsidiaries around the world responded to the crisis relative to local establishments. We find that, first, multinational subsidiaries fared on average better than local counterfactuals with similar economic characteristics. Second, among multinational subsidiaries, establishments sharing stronger vertical production and financial linkages with parents exhibited greater resilience. Finally, in contrast to the crisis period, the effect of foreign ownership and linkages on establishment performance was insignificant in noncrisis years. (JEL F23, G01, L22, M16)

JEL-codes: F23 G01 L22 M16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
Note: DOI: 10.1257/pol.4.3.30
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