Foreign ownership and firm performance: Evidence from Japan's electronics industry

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 41-50

  Nakano, Makoto ^a   Nguyen, Pascal ^b  

^a HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

dynamic panel; foreign investors; GMM; performance; unobserved heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; OWNERSHIP; PANEL DATA; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

JAPAN;

EID: 84866443062     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: 14664305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603107.2012.705425     Document Type: Article

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