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Event 9. oktober 2026, 11:00-12:15

Fin­ance Sem­in­ar with Lili­ana Varela, Lon­don School of Eco­nom­ics

The De­part­ment of Fi­nan­ce is proud to an­no­un­ce the upco­m­ing se­mi­nar with Liliana Varela, London School of Economics.

Seminar Details

Tid
9. oktober 2026, 11:00-12:15
Lokation
Copenhagen Business School
Solbjerg Plads 3
2000 Frederiksberg
Room SPs08
Emner
Finansiering

Please join us for a Finance Seminar with Liliana Varela, London School of Economics.

Liliana Varela will present: Segmented Financial Integration

Abstract: This paper documents sharp segmentation in cross-border financial operations across firms. Using administrative micro-level data covering the quasi-universe of France’s external positions between 2014 and 2018, we show that firms in the top 1st percentile of the size distribution display no currency, gravity or institutional biases and simultaneously engage in foreign investment and foreign funding, often with the same country. In contrast, bottom 99th firms exhibit pronounced biases and internationalize almost exclusively by raising equity capital from a single foreign country while holding no foreign assets. Segmentation matters for the transmission of shocks across borders: exogenously identified idiosyncratic shocks to the largest agents trigger capital flows that affect bilateral exchange rates in destination countries. This segmented pattern points to the existence of large fixed costs of financial internationalization which are substantially higher for foreign investing than for foreign borrowing.