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Economic Integration, Wage Policies and Social Policies

Pflüger, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

This paper sets up a two country monopolistic competition model with intra-industry trade to study the effects of an exogenous differential in wage and social policies on the location of industry. Two model scenarios are considered. In the traditional one with physical capital, such a...

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Where Do the Brainy Italians Go?

Constant, Amelie; D'Agosto, Elena - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

researchers who have at least a bachelor's from Italy and live abroad. There are three alternative country choices: the US …. Ceteris paribus, both push and pull factors are important. While having a Ph.D. from outside Italy predicts the UK choice …, having extra working experience from outside Italy predicts migration to other EU countries. Those who stay abroad …

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African Leaders: Their Education Abroad and FDI Flows

Constant, Amelie; Tien, Bienvenue N. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

essential for a country's economic growth. Our hypothesis is that foreign-educated leaders attract more FDI to their country …. Our rationale is that education obtained abroad encompasses a whole slew of factors that can make a difference in FDI … significant determinant of FDI inflows, beyond other standard characteristics. While intuitive, this result does not necessarily …

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Marriage Matters: Spousal Similarity in Life Satisfaction

Schimmack, Ulrich; Lucas, Richard - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

Examined the concurrent and cross-lagged spousal similarity in life satisfaction over a 21-year period. Analyses were based on married couples (N = 847) in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Concurrent spousal similarity was considerably higher than one-year retest similarity, revealing...

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Keeping up with the Schmidts: An Empirical Test of Relative Deprivation Theory in the Neighbourhood Context

Knies, Gundi; Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

We test empirically whether people's life satisfaction depends on their relative income position in the neighbourhood, drawing on a unique dataset, the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) matched with micro-marketing indicators of population characteristics. Relative deprivation theory...

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Corporate Donations to the Arts: Philanthropy or Advertising?

Frank, Björn; Geppert, Kurt - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

This paper is an attempt to provide evidence on two questions: Why do companies sponsor art events, and where exactly does the money go? We analyse data collected on the revenue structure of cultural institutions in Berlin and Hamburg. This data set not only tells us where the money goes, it...

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Determinants of Chinese Direct Investments in the European Union

Dreger, Christian; Schüler-Zhou, Yun; Schüller, Margot - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

This paper analyses the determinants of Chinese direct investment (DI) in the European Union (EU). Evidence is based on panel Poisson models drawing on two investment monitors for individual projects. We distinguish between the numbers of greenfield investments (GIs) and mergers and acquisitions...

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Outward FDI and Domestic Investment

Herzer, Dierk; Schrooten, Mechthild - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This paper examines the impact of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) on domestic investment by applying co-integration techniques to macroeconomic time series data for the United Sates and Germany. We show that the two countries differ: In the case of the US, OFDI has positive long-run...

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Does the Nominal Exchange Rate Regime Affect the Real Interest Parity Condition?

Dreger, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

The real interest partity (RIP) condition combines two cornerstones in international finance, uncovered interest parity (UIP) and ex ante purchasing power parity (PPP). The extent of deviation from RIP is therefore an indicator of the lack of product and financial market integration. This paper...

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Spillovers from Foreign Firms through Worker Mobility: An Empirical Investigation

Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from multinationals this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. The innovation of this paper is to investigate whether spillovers occur via worker mobility. We use data...

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