The opening up of Central and Eastern Europe has provided new investment opportunities for German investors. At the … accession states to the European Union. In this paper, we study the development of German FDI into the accession states from an …

Affiliates of German firms in Eastern Europe differ from those in the rest of the world. They have smaller sales and … they employ more labor. Labor productivity is thus lower than in affiliates of German firms elsewhere. Moreover … dominate. In this paper, we aim at explaining differences in the activities of German multinational firms in Eastern and …

This paper studies the determinants of German direct investment in the Central and Eastern European countries during …

clubs). The analysis is based on the Mannheim Innovation Panel survey which represents the German CIS (Community Innovation …, international experience and existing technological competences of the respective firm. Innovation barriers at the German home base …

collect original and unique matched parent and affiliate data on the internal organization of 660 German and Austrian parent …

and German multinational firms and 2200 of their affiliate firms in Eastern Europe. We find that three factors stand out …

collect original and unique matched parent and affiliate data on the internal organization of 660 German and Austrian parent …