Finance-specific factors as drivers of cross-border investment-An empirical investigation

International Business Review

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 630-641

  Forssbæck, Jens ^a,b   Oxelheim, Lars ^a,c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS IFN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cost of capital; Cross border acquisitions; FDI; Financial strategy; Financial variables; OLI

Indexed keywords

EID: 56949104566     PISSN: 09695931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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