Economic slowdowns, hazard rates and foreign ownership

Celeste Varum, Vera Rocha and Helder Valente da Silva ()

International Business Review, 2014, vol. 23, issue 4, 761-773

Abstract: This paper evaluates the link between foreign ownership and firm exit during crises, using a longitudinal micro dataset over an 18-year period. We address two main questions: first, if foreign affiliates have different failure rates than domestic firms during economic downturns, and second if the foreignness effect differs between two different economic downturns. The results partially confirm the liability of foreignness argument, suggesting that when the crisis was more pronounced at home than abroad, the differences in hazard rates between foreign and domestic firms reduce. The footloose argument is also only partially confirmed. For policy makers, our results on survival dynamics during crises are not against policies stimulating inward investment. There is no need to fear that foreign firms destabilize more than usual the host economy during economic slowdowns by immediately closing down operations.

Keywords: Economic slowdowns; Foreign ownership; Hazard rates; Manufacturing; Portugal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D21 F23 L25 L60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2013.11.008

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