Firms and policy makers are increasingly looking at friend-shoring to make supply chains
less vulnerable to geopolitical tensions. We test whether these considerations are sha** …

While large regulated incumbents in the energy industry face positive incentives to create
new energygenerating assets, we find that market deregulation and capital from the private …

We apply the independent cascade network inference model to a large database of music
videos to infer the structure of the global network of music diffusion. The derived network …

We find that financial conditions in the core have significant spillover effects on cross-border
mergers and acquisitions (M&As). On average, a 1 percentage point easing of the IMF US …

Climate-related regulations have become increasingly prevalent worldwide. However, the
nature of climate as a global public good makes it unclear to what extent these regulations …

This paper examines the impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on knowledge diffusion
by analyzing the effect of firm-level FDI activities on cross-border patent citations. We …

This study constructs an empirical framework from the perspective of dynamic capability
theory, and uses a combined dataset of Chinese listed companies from 2008 to 2020 to test …

We examine one aspect of special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) in the US
market, namely their focus on foreign targets. Using a sample of 1737 SPAC IPO filings and …

This paper covers the trend of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) of corporate
control in Italy. The expansion of international acquisitions in the last decades changed the …

Democracy matters for international merger activity. Using a sample of 101,834 cross-border
deals announced between 1985 and 2018, we show that merger flows predominantly …