Multinational banks in the crisis: Foreign affiliate lending as a mirror of funding pressure and competition on the internal capital market

We investigate how the lending activities abroad of a multinational bank’s local and hub affiliates have been affected by funding difficulties during the financial crisis. We find that affiliates’ local deposits and performance have been stabilizing loan supply. By contrast, relying on short-term wholesale funding has increasingly proven to be a disadvantage in the crisis, which has seen inter-bank and capital markets freeze. By introducing a liable approximate measure for intra-bank flows, we detect competition for intra-bank funding between the affiliates abroad as well as an increasing focus on the parent bank’s home market activities. In addition, the more an affiliate abroad relies on intra-bank funding in the crisis, the greater its dependence on its parent bank having a stable deposit and long-term wholesale funding position. We consider changes in long-term lending to the private sectors of 40 countries by the affiliates of the 68 largest German banks. To obtain a more precise picture, we clean our lending data from valuation effects.     

浅析跨国公司在华逃避社会责任原因与对策

戴尔"血汗工厂"事件再次使跨国公司在华社会责任问题引起全社会关注。少数跨国公司在华逃避社会责任,其原因一方面是企业为了追求利润最大化,不惜牺牲社会责任;另一方面是我国法律制度不完善,监督不到位,跨国公司钻了制度的漏洞。为此,建议一方面跨国公司自觉维护自身形象,增强责任意识;另一方面政府加强法制建设与企业社会责任的宣传与监督,引导与规范跨国公司社会责任的落实。     

Analysing the wealth effects of UK divestitures: An examination of domestic and international sales

Here we analyse divestiture announcement effects for UK multinational corporations accounting for the location of the unit sold. We find some bias in market reactions with larger abnormal returns for UK divestitures when compared to overseas sales. US sales generate larger returns than those in Continental Europe or the Asia-Pacific region. We analyse the determinants of abnormal returns using accounting and transaction data, supplemented with country specific data for overseas sales. Abnormal returns for UK sales are explained by financial characteristics of the selling firm but the size of the transaction relative to the firm is the most significant factor in overseas divestitures.     

National levels of corruption and foreign direct investment

We model the relationship between bilateral foreign direct investment (FDI) and the level of corruption in multinational firms’ (MCNs’) home and host countries. We construct and test a model of bilateral FDI between countries that differ in their levels of corruption. FDI is affected negatively both by the level of corruption in the host country and by differences in home- and host-country corruption. Our model emphasizes that MNCs develop skills for dealing with home-country corruption, and these skills become a competitive advantage in similarly corrupt host countries. We test the model using data on bilateral FDI stocks among a large number of home and host countries, using a variety of specifications and estimation strategies to provide robustness. Our results show that the effects of host-country corruption and of differences in corruption levels between home and host countries are statistically and economically significant.     

跨国银行境外分支机构的存款保险问题

本文通过不同国家与地区对跨国银行境外分支机构的存款保险安排进行考察,分析了影响不同国家和地区跨国银行境外分支机构存款保险选择的主要因素,并在借鉴国际经验和结合我国国情的基础上,提出了我国对外国银行分支机构和本国银行境外分支机构存款保险的可行选择。     

A multi-level investigation of international marketing projects: The roles of experiential knowledge and creativity on performance

This study, using a sample of Korean multinational corporations, focuses on testing the relationships between the constructs of experiential knowledge, creativity, and performance in the context of international marketing projects. Relying on a multi-level conceptualization of experiential knowledge and creativity, our findings suggest that process-based creativity is enhanced when the team members have a higher level of experiential knowledge, but outcome-based creativity is not significantly influenced by either team- or firm-level experiential knowledge. It is concluded that, in the context of international marketing projects, the domain-relevant knowledge of the actors (i.e., the team-level experiential knowledge in the foreign markets) largely governs the level of their process-based creativity. The findings also suggest that project performance is directly influenced by firm-level experiential knowledge and process-based creativity, and is indirectly influenced by team-level experiential knowledge through the mediation of process-based creativity.     

全球烟草管制与跨国公司的游说活动

各国对烟草业的管制都经历了对烟草危害性的逐步认识过程。跨国烟草公司为了维护其商业利益和优势,不断游说各国政府以影响其控烟政策的实施。近年来,烟草业管制出现的新趋势使跨国烟草公司感受到了巨大的压力,不得不另辟财源以降低烟草经营的风险。     

中国视角:收入来源国与跨国公司的税收博弈

跨国公司经济实力强大、现代企业制度完备、经营结构合理、享有垄断与内部化优势.跨国公司全球范围内追求集团利益最大化,内部管理的高效率、信息沟通的高科技,以及对税收筹划的高度重视,都对收入来源国提出了严峻挑战.跨国公司在中国发展迅速,也存在大量的避税问题.中国已经开展了20年的反避税工作,但在制度建设以及针对跨国公司避税特点采取强力度措施方面进展不够.新的两税合一的<企业所得税法>及其<实施条例>,以及预约定价制度是重大进步,但要很好地贯彻执行还需做出多方面的努力.     

The contribution of internalisation theory to international business: New realities and unanswered questions

This paper sets out the importance of internalisation theory to international business research and practice. It examines the context against which the theory has been developed, the environmental conditions in which the multinational enterprise has evolved and the phenomena that the theory has explained. It also examines the challenge to the theory of “unanswered questions”. These include governance, location theory, dynamics, networked multinationals, innovation, entrepreneurship and the role of risk and uncertainty.     

对跨国公司滥用知识产权行为的反垄断规制--从思科诉华为案谈起

知识产权是一面双刃剑,在知识经济时代,知识产权在推动经济发展和社会进步中的作用越来越大,但知识产权也存在滥用的问题。随着我国加入世贸组织,跨国公司在我国市场上的垄断行为都同知识产权的滥用分不开,而且这种趋势还将有蔓延的可能。为防止跨国公司滥用其正当获得的知识产权,从反垄断法的视角对滥用知识产权的行为进行法律规制,以期对知识产权行使中有效竞争秩序的建立有所裨益。