Financial frictions and foreign direct investment: Evidence from Japanese microdata
Horst Raff,
Michael Ryan and
Frank Stähler
Journal of International Economics, 2018, vol. 112, issue C, 109-122
Abstract:
Using Japanese microdata for the period 1980 to 2000 we find evidence for two transmission channels from financial shocks to foreign direct investment: a collateral channel, whereby changes in the value of investors' landholdings affect their borrowing ability; and a lending channel, whereby changes in bank health affect banks' lending ability. Decreasing land values by 55% on average from their peak in 1990 to the sample mean reduces the predicted number of investments by 17%. Reducing banks' market-to-book ratios by an average 61% from their high in 1986 to the sample mean lowers predicted investment counts by 21%.
Keywords: Foreign direct investment; Multinational enterprise; Credit rationing; Collateral; Bank health; Japan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F23 L20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2018.02.006
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