(liability of foreignness) may translate into additional obstacles for foreign subsidiaries. We test these hypotheses empirically … using a broad dataset of more than 1,000 innovative firms in Germany. We find that MNCs can compete on an equal footing with …

decision to cooperate with foreign partners. Some differences remain, however: In Germany, exporters are more likely to …In this paper we investigate the factors that lead firms to cooperate with partners from foreign countries on … innovation activities. Portuguese and German data from the harmonised Community Innovation Survey (CIS III) allow us to compare …

main channels: innovation and absorptive capacity. The quantitative results, based on a panel of 16 OECD countries from …

more than 7,000 firm observations in Germany over a multi-year period. Our theoretical predictions are only supported for …

The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany …. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 (Mannheim Innovation Panel), we pair firms … management on the share of cost reductions with process innovation. …

foreign direct investment (FDI). In this paper, we therefore adopt the idea of Kremer (1993) and Costinot et al. (2011) of a …

banks' foreign asset and liability holdings as well as foreign direct investment in the banking sector. It highlights the … differential effects of capital account and banking sector liberalization on banks' foreign positions and international capital …

strongest with respect to af liate employment in Western Europe. A one percent larger wage gap between Germany and locations in …

tax rate of the German affiliate. From our study of a panel of more than 8,000 non-financial affiliates in Germany, we … find only small effects of the tax rate of the foreign parent. However, our empirical results show that subsidiaries that …