Submitted by Marie Guimbert (marie.guimbert@gmail.com) on 2013-03-28T12:44:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 MarieGuimbert-TESE FINAL VERSAO.pdf: 6244082 bytes, checksum: 8bb83a91eb5756b8167e2a1f4b5416cb (MD5) / Rejected by Eliene Soares da Silva (eliene.silva@fgv.br), reason: Marie, good morning! I am going to decline the file you submitted because of the norms for the pages. If you could please send the the Word file, I will fix them for you and send it back, then you can upload on the system again. Best, Eliene Soares Graduate Office on 2013-04-01T13:27:49Z (GMT) / Submitted by Marie Guimbert (marie.guimbert@gmail.com) on 2013-04-02T15:20:14Z No. of bitstreams: 1 MARIE GUIMBERT.pdf: 2632442 bytes, checksum: ffb06ca281e1bd6c5366e0fa7aa0cfe6 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Eliene Soares da Silva (eliene.silva@fgv.br) on 2013-04-02T16:19:33Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 MARIE GUIMBERT.pdf: 2632442 bytes, checksum: ffb06ca281e1bd6c5366e0fa7aa0cfe6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-04-02T17:04:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MARIE GUIMBERT.pdf: 2632442 bytes, checksum: ffb06ca281e1bd6c5366e0fa7aa0cfe6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-02-22 / The retailing industry has increasingly become global over the past few decades, illustrating visually the internationalization of business in general. Many retailers are betting to expand their activities internationally in order to avoid the saturation of their business in their country of origin (Alexander, 1990), increase profits or imitate competitors (Williams, 1992). Therefore, they have become considerable global players: they provide new products in the marketplace as well as being more influent within the global supply chain (Williams, 1992). Looking at the internationalization of retail more closely, the cosmetic industry provides with many examples of, what seems to be, successful achievements. The purpose of this work is to analyze the process of internationalization of four international competitors in the cosmetic retailing. Even though the field of retail internationalization has already been subject to many studies, this works aims at understanding, through the use of a multiple case study, the strategy of cosmetic retailers entering international markets. Through a qualitative study, the main question guiding this work will be to understand if every international cosmetic retailer has been following and still follows the same business and marketing strategies in order to become global. A multiple-case study was undertaken in order to compare four companies specialized in the cosmetic retail, with activities abroad. Results clearly expose differences between the internationalization processes, especially based on the companies’ nationality. / O setor de varejo foi cada vez mais global ao longo das últimas décadas, ilustrando visualmente a globalização dos negócios. Muitos varejistas estão apostando em expandir, as atividades ao nível internacional, a fim de evitar a saturação da atividade no país de origem deles (Alexander, 1990), de aumentar os lucros ou de imitar os concorrentes (Williams, 1992). Portanto, eles tornaram-se competidores globais consideráveis: eles fornecem novos produtos no mercado, além de ser mais influentes na cadeia de abastecimento global (Williams, 1992). Em relação à internacionalização do varejo, a indústria cosmética oferece com exemplos de muitas realizações bem- sucedidas. O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar o processo de internacionalização de vários varejistas globais, especializados na venda de produtos cosméticos. Mesmo que o campo de internacionalização no varejo já foi no passado o objeto de vários estudos, este trabalho visa a compreender, por meio da utilização de um estudo de caso múltiplo, a estratégia de retalhistas cosméticos que entram nos mercados internacionais. Por meio de um estudo qualitativo, a questão principal que orienta este trabalho será a de compreender se o varejo de cosméticos segue as mesmas estratégias de negócio e estratégias de marketing para se tornar global. O estudo de casos múltiplos foi escolhido a fim de comparar quatro empresas, especializadas na venda de produtos de cosmética, com atividades no exterior. Os resultados claramente exibem diferenças entre os processos de internacionalização, baseado especialmente na nacionalidade das empresas sob analise.

Submitted by José Marcos Carrera Junior (josemarcoscj@gmail.com) on 2014-01-06T14:16:17Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Mestrado MPA FGV - Jose Marcos Carrera Junior.pdf: 2932357 bytes, checksum: 6408f2d692015e1ef7dfd98c321a4f4f (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Vera Lúcia Mourão (vera.mourao@fgv.br) on 2014-01-06T14:58:12Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Mestrado MPA FGV - Jose Marcos Carrera Junior.pdf: 2932357 bytes, checksum: 6408f2d692015e1ef7dfd98c321a4f4f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-01-06T15:06:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Mestrado MPA FGV - Jose Marcos Carrera Junior.pdf: 2932357 bytes, checksum: 6408f2d692015e1ef7dfd98c321a4f4f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-12-04 / A internacionalização é um tema cada vez mais em pauta nas empresas. A teoria existente mostra que há um potencial problema de agência na decisão de internacionalização. Enquanto os executivos, visando maximizar sua utilidade, tendem a buscar um alto grau de internacionalização, os acionistas tendem a ser mais seletivos e criteriosos neste tipo de decisão estratégica. Neste cenário o poder de barganha de cada uma das partes e a liberdade dos administradores para buscar seus interesses será dado em função da concentração de propriedade. Não obstante, fatores institucionais de um mercado emergente também podem afetar características corporativas, e a estrutura de propriedade das firmas é um aspecto que é impactado por tais fatores. Portanto não somente a concentração de propriedade, como também o tipo da mesma pode influenciar o grau de internacionalização das firmas. Consequentemente este trabalho se propõe a examinar a influência que a estrutura de propriedade tem no grau de internacionalização das empresas brasileiras. Através da análise de 184 empresas brasileiras de capital aberto entre 2002 e 2011 concluímos que o problema de agência não foi tão relevante. Além disso, mostramos que empresas familiares e com forte participação do governo via fundos de pensão apresentaram em média um maior grau de internacionalização, o que sugere a importante atuação do governo junto a grupos privados para impulsionar a internacionalização. / Internationalization is a strategic topic that is gaining in importance on the corporate agendas. The existing theory shows that there is a potential agency problem in the decision of internationalization. While executives, wanting to maximize their utility, tend to seek a high degree of internationalization, shareholders, on the other hand, tend to be more selective and conservative in this type of strategic decision. In this scenario the bargaining power of each party and the freedom of the directors to pursue their interests will be given as the function of the ownership concentration. Notwithstanding, institutional factors of an emerging market may also affect corporate characteristics, and the ownership structure of firms is an aspect that is impacted by such factors. Thus not only the ownership concentration, but also, the classification of the ownership structure can influence the degree of internationalization of firms. Therefore this study aims to examine the influence of ownership structure on the degree of internationalization of Brazilian companies. By the analysis of 184 Brazilian public firms between 2002 and 2011, we concluded that the agency problem involving managers and shareholders was not so relevant. Furthermore, we show that family businesses and firms with strong government involvement by means of pension funds had, on average, a higher degree of internationalization, which suggests the important role of the government with respect to stimulating the internationalization of private groups.

Der ständig steigende Bedarf an Lebensmitteln und Getränken insbesondere in Schwellenländern wie China, Indien und Brasilien fordert von der Verpackungsindustrie eine Leistungssteigerung in gleichem Maße. Um den Durchsatz einer einzelnen Verpackungs- und Füllmaschine unter Beibehaltung von Verpackungsqualität und -form zu steigern, gibt es grundsätzlich zwei Möglichkeiten. Die eine Verbreiterung der Maschine nach sich ziehende Erhöhung der Anzahl der gleichzeitig bearbeiteten Verpackungen, sowie die weitestgehend bauraumneutrale Verringerung der Taktzeit. Letzteres wurde von der SIG Combibloc Systems GmbH, einem der weltweit führenden Systemanbieter von Packstoff und entsprechenden Füllmaschinen für Getränke und Lebensmittel, für eines ihrer Verpackungssysteme in Angriff genommen. Ziel war die Erhöhung des Durchsatzes um 50 % von 24.000 auf 36.000 Verpackungen pro Stunde. [... aus der Einleitung]

International Joint Ventures are important for international Business. In recent years, firms started to convert their International Joint Ventures into Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprises. However, there is only a limited understanding for the conversion of International Joint Ventures into Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprises. The purpose of this study is to offer reasoning for this phenomenon. The theoretical framework that was developed for this thesis is based on the FDI Motive theory and the OLI framework. From a methodological perspective, a deductive approach is followed. The qualitative research was using a multiple case study design to collect primary data to answer the research questions. The results of this study suggest, that two aspects of the FDI Motive theory have an effect on the International Joint Venture conversion into a Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise. For the market seeking motive, firms believe to be able to better maximize their market share by taking full control over the subsidiary. Also, the resource seeking motive is in this thesis identified as an important reason for the conversions, as companies see especially advantages in taking full control over labour in those markets. However, the Strategic Asset Seeking and Efficiency Seeking motives are not included in the study. Also, several changes of OLI factors were identified as impactful for the conversion. The decrease of cultural difference between home and foreign market, the increase of perception of market size, gaining of international experience as well as the decrease of risk in the foreign market are all factors which are important for the reasoning of converting an International Joint Venture into a Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise. In addition, no correlation between the conversion and the enforcing of contracts or the size of the company were observed in this study. Furthermore, this thesis suggests that there are also other factors that were not identified by the theoretical frameworks. Lack of trust in the partner, liberalisation of governmental regulations, bad financial performances of the International Joint Ventures and economic crises are aspects that have an influence on conversions as well. The findings of this thesis will help Swedish based firms to understand the phenomenon of firms converting their International Joint Ventures into Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprises in India and the People’s Republic of China.

The dissertation consists of two essays. In the first essay we compare the performance of Islamic and conventional stock returns in Saudi Arabia in order to determine whether the Saudi market exhibits characteristics that are consistent with segmented markets and investor recognition effects. We sample the daily stock returns of all Saudi firms from September 2002 to 2015 and calculate important measures, including idiosyncratic volatility (Ang et al, 2006), market integration (Pukthuanthong and Roll, 2009), systematic turnover (Loughran and Schultz, 2005), and stock turnover and liquidity (Amihud, 2002). Integration tests report that Islamic stocks are more sensitive to changes in global and local macroeconomic variables than conventional stocks, supporting the hypothesis that the Islamic and conventional stock markets are segmented in Saudi Arabia. In addition, our results show that Islamic stocks have larger number of investors, lower idiosyncratic risk, higher systematic turnover, and more liquid than conventional stocks, which supports the investor recognition hypothesis. Our results provide new evidence on asset pricing in emerging markets, the evolving Islamic financial markets, and the potential impact of other implicit market barriers on global financial markets. In the second essay we examine the effects of shared beliefs and personal preferences of individual investors on their trading and investment decisions. We anticipate that the process of classifying stocks into Shariah compliant (Islamic) and non-shariah compliant (conventional) has an effect on investibility and acceptance of the stock especially by unsophisticated or individual investors. The wide acceptance of Islamic stocks between individual investors promote and facilitate the circulation of firm-specific information between certain groups of investors. Our results indicate that stock classification has an effect on the stock price comovement through increased stock trading correlation between the groups of Islamic investors. The commonality in preferences between Islamic stocks’ holders generate commonality in trading activity and in stock liquidity. We find that classifying a stock as an Islamic stock increases its price comovement with other Islamic stocks and also increases its commonality in liquidity.

International Joint Ventures are important for international Business. In recent years, firms started to convert their International Joint Ventures into Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprises. However, there is only a limited understanding for the conversion of International Joint Ventures into Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprises. The purpose of this study is to offer reasoning for this phenomenon. The theoretical framework that was developed for this thesis is based on the FDI Motive theory and the OLI framework. The results of this study suggest, that two aspects of the FDI Motive theory have an effect on the International Joint Venture conversion into a Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise. For the market seeking motive, firms believe to be able to better maximize their market share by taking full control over the subsidiary. Also, the resource seeking motive is in this thesis identified as an important reason for the conversions, as companies see especially advantages in taking full control over labour in those markets. However, the Strategic Asset Seeking and Efficiency Seeking motives are not included in the study. Also, several changes of OLI factors were identified as impactful for the conversion. The decrease of cultural difference between home and foreign market, the increase of perception of market size, gaining of international experience as well as the decrease of risk in the foreign market are all factors which are important for the reasoning of converting an International Joint Venture into a Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise. In addition, no correlation between the conversion and the enforcing of contracts or the size of the company were observed in this study. Furthermore, this thesis suggests that there are also other factors that were not identified by the theoretical framework. Lack of trust in the partner, liberalisation of governmental regulations, bad financial performances of the International Joint Ventures and economic crises are aspects that have an influence on conversions. The findings of this thesis will help Swedish based firms to understand the phenomenon of firms converting their International Joint Ventures into Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprises in India and the People’s Republic of China.

The dissertation consists of two essays. The first essay investigates how oil market factors impact on liquidity commonality in global equity markets. I identify two transmitting channels of the effect on liquidity commonality, namely oil price return and volatility. Using a sample of firms drawn from 50 countries spanning from Jan 1995 to Dec 2015, I find that both effects in oil explain the liquidity commonality in countries with higher integration to oil market. In addition, I show that oil volatility effect is more pronounced in net oil exporters compared to net oil importers after controlling for oil sensitivity. My findings suggest that oil volatility effect on liquidity commonality is more substantial for high oil sensitive countries than oil price return effect except five OPEC members, where liquidity commonality is highly influenced by oil the return along with volatility. These results are robust to controlling for possible sources of liquidity commonality as found in the literature. In the second essay, I study the impact of stock liquidity on firms’ future investments. Since stock liquidity decreases the cost of equity, I expect firms’ future investments to increase with stock liquidity. Secondly, I argue that this relation is more pronounced in more financially constrained firms because of their limited access to external capital. Using a sample of more than 9800 firms, from 21 emerging markets and spanning from 2000 to 2015, I find supportive and robust evidence of a positive association between stock liquidity and firms’ future investments. Furthermore, my findings strongly suggest that the liquidity impact on corporate investments is highly influenced by the firms’ financial constraint levels, using four different definitions of financial constraints. My findings are robust due to controlling for other determinants of future investment suggested in the previous literature, and due to controlling for the country and time effects. In addition, the results seem to be consistent with the use of alternative measures of corporate investments and stock liquidity and with alternative model specifications and estimation methodologies.

Une des questions fondamentales en économie est celle du rôle que devraient jouer les autorités publiques pour mitiger les fluctuations de l’activité économique. Cette thèse, organisée en trois chapitres, analyse comment les politiques économiques peuvent être caractérisées à travers différentes structures économiques et au cours du cycle économique. En particulier, la première partie de la thèse se concentre sur la politique budgétaire et analyse comment les différentes caractéristiques structurelles des pays affectent l’efficacité de la politique budgétaire. La deuxième partie analyse la conduite de la politique monétaire dans des pays en régime de ciblage d’inflation et la manière dont celle-ci a été affectée par l’expansionnisme monétaire sans précédent des économies avancées depuis la crise financière et économique globale. Le chapitre met en évidence le rôle des facteurs domestiques et externes qui affectent les décisions de politique monétaire dans les pays émergents. Etant donné que les politiques budgétaire et monétaire sont les outils les plus importants disponibles pour les autorités publiques pour la gestion de la politique macroéconomique, le troisième chapitre de la thèse analyse les bases théoriques qui soutiennent l’utilisation de ces politiques de manière contra-cyclique, et étudie comment, dans la pratique, ces politiques ont répondu aux fluctuations économiques en Amérique Latine au cours des deux dernières décennies. En particulier le chapitre analyse dans quelle mesure les politiques budgétaire et monétaire renforcent ou contrebalancent les fluctuations économiques, c’est-à-dire dans quelle mesure elles sont pro-cycliques ou contra-cycliques, et discute le rôle des institutions économiques. / One of the most fundamental questions in economics is what should be the role of economic authorities in addressing fluctuations in economic activity. This dissertation, organized in three chapters, analyses how economic policies can be characterized across economic structures and along the business cycle. In particular, the first part of the dissertation focuses on fiscal policy and addresses the question of how different structural characteristics across countries affect the effectiveness of fiscal policy. The second part analyses the conduct of monetary policy in inflation targeting countries and how it has been affected by the unprecedented expansionary monetary policies implemented by advanced economies since the recent global financial and economic crisis. The chapter highlights the role of domestic and external factors affecting the determination of monetary policy. Given that fiscal and monetary policies are the two most important tools available for policymakers in terms of macroeconomic management, the third chapter of the dissertation analyses the theoretical grounds for these policies to be used in a countercyclical manner, and studies how in practice these policies have responded to economic fluctuations in Latin America over the last two decades. In particular the chapter analyses the degree to which fiscal and monetary policies reinforce or counterbalance fluctuations in economic activity, i.e. whether these policies have been procyclical or countercyclical, and discusses the role of economic institutions.

The text deals with monetary policy normalization in USA and its influence on cross-border capital flows to emerging markets. The first chapter provides basic economic theory of capital flows. Federal Reserve's monetary policy normalization is discussed in the second chapter, including its relation to international flows of capital. The last chapter analyzes monetary policy normalization influence on capital flows to three developing countries.

Cette thèse de doctorat s’intéresse fondamentalement au traitement de la question suivante : quelle forme d’association entre les données comptables et les valeurs de marché subsiste dans le contexte de forte volatilité et de haut risque propre aux marchés émergents ? Pour atteindre ce but, deux modèles ont été utilisés dans ce travail : le modèle d’évaluation par les résultats résiduels (ou residual income model R.I.M) et celui de l’évaluation par la croissance anormale des résultats (ou abnormal earnings growth A.E.G).Dans cette étude, un modèle de type R.I.M. est développé avec des hypothèses particulières concernant la capacité de l’entreprise à créer de la valeur et ses implications ont été testées empiriquement sur un échantillon comprenant des entreprises provenant d’Amérique du Nord, d’autres pays développés et d’un ensemble de pays émergents sur la période2000-2007. Les résultats obtenus soulignent que le degré d’association entre les valeurs comptables et les valeurs de marché dépend du stade de croissance et des modes de financement utilisés par les firmes. Si les indicateurs comptables de croissance et d’endettement apportent une information complémentaire significative dans les pays développés, leur contribution est très modeste dans le cas des pays émergents.Le développement d’un modèle d’évaluation de type AEG (initialement proposé par Ohlson & Juettner-Nauroth), incluant une modélisation de l’évolution des rentes attendues compatible avec des conditions de concurrence pure et parfaite nous permet de proposer une relation testable entre la valeur de marché d’une action, le résultat net par action attendu dans un an,son taux de croissance à court terme et un ensemble de variables comptables composant un indicateur synthétique de croissance de l’entreprise. Nos résultats montrent (1) que l’accroissement attendu du bénéfice par action est associé significativement au cours boursier (surtout pour les pays développés), (2) mais que, comme le suggère notre modèle, la persistance de ses effets est limitée (surtout pour les pays émergents), (3) que lorsque la dynamique de la croissance est plus complexe, l’inclusion d’une variable synthétique apporte un terme correctif significatif (4) et enfin que le coût du capital implicite est sensiblement plus élevé pour les pays émergents que pour les pays développés / This dissertation on emerging markets is driven by one fundamental question, i.e., is there any association between accounting data and market values in high risk and volatile emerging markets. To this end, two models, residual incomevaluation (R.I.M) and abnormal earnings growth (A.E.G), have been explored in this work.In the first study, a model of type Residual Income Valuation is developed and its implications are empirically tested on sample consisting of American companies, developed countries apart from USA and emerging countries over the period2000-2007. The results show that in most of countries studied, the association between the book value and market value ofequity significantly depends on the stage of growth and the method of financing characterizing the company.The development of a valuation model of type Abnormal Earnings Growth Model ( by Ohlson & Juettner-Nauroth),including modeling of evolution of expected relationship between market value of a share, expected earnings per share in ayear, its rate of growth in short-term and a set of accounting variable composing a synthetic indicator of growth of company,is studied in the second research work of this dissertation. Our results show that (1) expected increase in earnings per shareare significantly associated with stock prices ( especially for developed countries), (2) but, as suggested by our model, the persistence of its effects is limited ( especially for emerging countries), (3) when the dynamics of growth are more complex,inclusion of a synthetic variable can make a significant correction term (4) and finally the implied cost of capital issignificantly higher for emerging countries than for developed countries