Natalia Ribberink

• PhD
• Professor at HAW Hamburg

Since the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak a growing body of literature has observed uncertainty among the main factors driving investor behavior, with these becoming more likely to seek risk minimization strategies, such as the minimum variance approach based on Modern Portfolio Theory. In this chapter a network-based minimum variance approach to portfo...

This study aims to analyse the impact of force majeure events or exogenous shocks, characterized by a high level of uncertainty, on the US and European stock market behaviour through cross-regional and inter-industrial comparisons. Based on the sample of 832 largest stock-listed companies publicly traded in both regions, the authors investigate whe...

This study investigates the expected levels of sectoral economic integration resulting from the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in two emerging resource-rich host countries (Kazakhstan and Russia). It also investigates the expected levels of integration in two advanced resource-rich countries (Australia and Canada) and two technology-rich countries...

To achieve sustainable growth, China facilitates outward foreign direct investments (FDI) in natural resources and technology through large supportive policies and massive financing, particularly through the expansion of its state-owned companies into foreign markets. This trend has accelerated economic growth in Australia but has also raised natio...

Infrastructure is an essential component of national economic growth and has a considerable economic effect. To benefit from these effects and to avoid under-provision or no infrastructure within their countries and regions, governments and supranational bodies introduce investment policies, which boost infrastructure investment. To meet their dema...

Infrastructure is an essential component of national economic growth and has a considerable economic effect. To benefit from these effects and to avoid non-or under-provision of infrastructure within their countries and regions, governments and supranational bodies introduce investment policies, which boost infrastructure investment. To cure their...

Driven by the advancement of technology, emergence of financial institutional bodies superseding geographical constraints, as well as cross-regional liberalization paired with the removal of restrictions, global stock markets tend to become increasingly interconnected. On the one hand, it is believed that the globalization has made stock markets mo...

The promotion of low tariffs and free trade has been the underlying driver of global economic growth. The recent political developments in the United States and Great Britain call into question, whether free trade will be supported by the governments of the industrialized world in the future. Shortly after being inaugurated in 2017, the President o...

The ongoing changes in the global economy as well as recognition of importance of SMEs have led to an emergence of research in the respective area in the last two to three decades. In fact, although international experience is known as a central determinant for internationalization, only few studies have analyzed the link between international expe...

Foreign subsidiaries are at a disadvantage as compared to domestic enterprises, which is especially the case for emerging market firms in more developed economies. In this paper we apply liability of foreignness (LOF) concept to address the issue of these disadvantages. We consider LOF effects associated with equity vs. non-equity entry modes for R...

The papers aims to analyse the key drivers for internationalisation in furniture industry by taking into consideration the cross-border activities of selected furniture manufacturers in Poland and Germany in comparison. The results show some similarities in internationalisation strategy design of selected furniture manufacturers in both countries....