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Bank of Canada Review
Spring 2002
Index of Working Papers | Index of Technical Reports| Title | Foreign Takeovers and the Canadian Dollar: Evidence and Implications |
| Author(s) | Lawrence Schembri |
| Type | Bank of Canada Review article |
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Date of publication |
Spring 2002 |
| Language | English |
| Abstract |
Since 1995, acquisitions of foreign firms by Canadian residents and acquisitions of Canadian firms by foreign residents have increased. Through most of this period, the dollar has depreciated, but the cumulative net balance of foreign direct investment acquisition flows has remained close to zero. The recent upward trend in bilateral acquisition flows is part of the globalization process as firms consolidate and rationalize their operations, and is not related to the value of the Canadian dollar.
Standard models of international asset pricing imply that there should not be a relationship between the Canadian exchange rate and foreign takeovers of Canadian firms because an exchange rate movement does not give foreign buyers a systematic advantage over domestic buyers. Purchases of domestic firms by foreign residents are likely to be welfare-improving. Transactions between foreign and domestic residents are voluntary, and they imply that the foreign buyers expect to obtain higher profits from the firms' assets. |
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Exchange rates |
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