This paper empirically analyzes the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on financial performance of marine transportation companies between 2005 and 2013. By using firm-level data of 407 companies in marine transportation sector during the sample period, we find that FDI companies experience severe financial difficulties with respect to companies that do not engage in FDI. Considering that marine transportation company’s FDI decision is largely affected by the foreign corporate tax rates, we estimate two-stage least squares model to find that an increase in foreign investment that is made to the foreign subsidiaries from exploiting low foreign corporate tax rates significantly worsens financial performance of parent firms over time. These results provide evidence that recent collapse of Korea’s top marine transportation companies is partially associated with prior FDI increase.
목차
Abstract Ⅰ. 서론 Ⅱ. 이론적 배경 Ⅲ. 연구 방법 Ⅳ. 분석 결과 Ⅴ. 결론 및 시사점 참고문헌
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Marine transportation companyForeign direct investmentFinancial performance2SLS
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이승래 [ Seungrae Lee | 경북대학교 경제통상학부 조교수, 대표집필 ]
이재민 [ Jaimin Lee | 한국해양대학교 해양금융·물류대학원 해양금융학과 교수 ]
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