Nonlinearities and a Pecking Order in Cross-border Investment

48 Pages Posted: 18 Nov 2021

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Sara B. Holland

University of Oklahoma - Michael F. Price College of Business

Sergei Sarkissian

McGill University; University of Edinburgh

Michael J. Schill

University of Virginia - Darden School of Business

Francis E. Warnock

University of Virginia - Darden Business School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Date Written: October 29, 2021

Abstract

Nonlinearities arise in international investment because of a pecking order in barriers. Some severe barriers render all others meaningless and only when they are alleviated do other barriers become important. We show, using quantile regressions designed to model relations at more points than just the conditional mean, how various investment theories hold at different points in the distribution of bilateral cross-border equity holdings. Our results reconcile a number of findings in the literature by highlighting that datasets that focus on different points of the barriers (investment) distribution can naturally lead to different results.

Keywords: Capital flows, Capital controls, International investments, Market integration

JEL Classification: F15, F21, F30, G15

Suggested Citation

Holland, Sara B. and Sarkissian, Sergei and Schill, Michael J. and Warnock, Francis E., Nonlinearities and a Pecking Order in Cross-border Investment (October 29, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3952612 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3952612

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