This paper reviews the research on the $6.65 trillion dollar Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF).
The literature, which has only appeared in the last few years, focuses for the most part on the …

In this article, we conduct a meta-literature review of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs),
covering 184 articles from 2005 to 2019. Our meta-literature review consists of qualitative …

Firms and governments operate in broad networks in which the home government and its
diplomatic service are a critical node–or a “referral point”–between firms and potential …

Expropriation risk has a binding effect on foreign direct investment (FDI). However, state-
owned multinational corporations may counter the monopoly power of the host state by …

Firms and policy makers are increasingly looking at friend-shoring to make supply chains
less vulnerable to geopolitical tensions. We test whether these considerations are shaping …

We introduce the topic of this Special Issue on the “Role of Financial and Legal Institutions in
International Governance”, with a particular emphasis on a notion of “international mobility of …

Research summary: In the context of economic nationalism, we investigate the relevance of
political affinity between countries to the initial acquisition premium offered in cross‐border …

We survey the literature documenting the rise of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), which, with
assets under management of over $5.4 trillion at year‐end 2014, are a major force in global …

Conventional wisdom holds that there is a global trend toward liberalization of markets, yet
the role of the state has expanded or shifted in certain areas rather than being generally …

This paper examines the investments of 19 sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) in 424 firms
(both public and private) around the world from 1991 through 2010. The data indicate that …