Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/184789 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 838
Publisher: 
Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance, London
Abstract: 
How do real-time expectations affect firms' economic decisions? We provide evidence by using a dataset on Japanese multinational firms' sales forecasts and exploring an unexpected escalation of a territorial dispute between China and Japan in 2012. Our estimation substantiates that, after the escalation of the dispute, affiliates of Japanese multinational firms in China experienced a sharp but temporary decline in total sales relative to affiliates in other countries and a more persistent decline in investment. Moreover, the territorial dispute has led to persistent pessimism in these firms' expectations about future sales, which can explain 60% of the overall decline in investment.
Subjects: 
forecasts
pessimistic expectations
geopolitical events
investment
JEL: 
E22
E32
D84
F51
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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