Abstract
In this article we analyse the impact of the interaction between cross-border mergers and acquisitions and the quality of the institutional setting on domestic investment using panel data for 22 European transition countries from 2000 to 2014. We investigate whether the progress and durability of institutional reforms have a crucial influence on the economic performance of cross-border mergers and acquisitions in transition countries. Our empirical findings indicate that contemporaneous cross-border mergers and acquisitions have a crowding-out effect on domestic investment in the year of merger or acquisition, but the influence of their lagged level has a strong crowding-in effect one year later. We find that the overall quality of the institutional setting and the rule of law negatively and significantly affect the relation between this type of foreign direct investment and domestic investment, both in the short and long run. Political stability exhibits a positive and significant impact on domestic investment in the current period and over time.
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