This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival forenterprises in Germany using unique tailor-made new representative data that mergeinformation from surveys performed by the Statistical Offices, from administrative datacollected by the Tax Authorities and from...

We study the effects of policy reforms in the South on the decisions of intrafirm and arm’slength production transfers by Northern firms. We show theoretically that relaxing ownershipcontrols and improving contract enforcement can induce multinational companies to expandproduct varieties to...

Paper addresses the recent initiatives of EU Lisbon Agenda to increase level of R&Dexpenses in EU Member States by studying firm-level panel data in most advanced transitioneconomy, Slovenia. Previous empirical literature – mainly cross-sectional – has tested thedemand-pull hypothesis and...