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Worker Remittances and Capital Flows
Buch, Claudia M.; Kuckulenz, Anja; Manchec, Marie-Helene Le - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2002
and the volatility of the main capital flows — foreign direct investment (FDI), portfolio investment, and foreign bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755227
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Where Enterprises Lead, People Follow? Links between Migration and German FDI
Buch, Claudia M.; Kleinert, Jörn; Toubal, Farid - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2003
empirically. More specifically, we use state-level German data to answer the question whether and how migration and FDI decisions … and thus integration of labor and capital markets are linked. Our findings suggest that FDI and migration have similar … and trade in goods. From a theoretical point of view, the interaction between the different channels of integration can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818795
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Business Cycles and FDI: Evidence from German Sectoral Data
Buch, Claudia M.; Lipponer, Alexander - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2005
the period 1989-2002. We find that German outward FDI increases in response to positive cyclical developments abroad and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887024
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Are Newly Exporting Firms more Innovative? Findings from Matched Spanish Innovators
Hanley, Aoife; Monreal-Pérez, Joaquín - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
The prevalence of Internet-based sales by exporters vs. non-exporters is highlighted in a recent World Bank Report (Ferro, 2011) suggesting the use of sophisticated processes when selling overseas. We investigate the count of new process/ product innovations for a group of newly exporting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320182
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Creating backward linkages from multinationals: Is there a role for financial incentives?
Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Strobl, Eric - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
We investigate whether government subsidies to local input manufacturers encourage procurement from foreign firms. We use a comprehensive panel data of Irish firms from 1983 until 2002. Our data shows a spontaneity about linkages and relative insensitivity to grant aid, although it may be the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103191
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Surviving the crisis: foreign multinationals vs domestic firms
Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
Starting from the observation that all firms in Ireland (foreign and domestic in manufacturing and services industries) were hit by the crisis, the paper asks whether there is a difference in the behaviour of foreign and domestic firms. One hypothesis is that foreign multinationals are less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025169
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Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Supply Chains of Multinational Companies
Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Seric, Adnan - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015
This paper looks at the importance of CSR considerations in the decision taken by a foreign affiliate of a multinational company about the choice of local suppliers. We investigate this empirically using unique firm level data for more than 2,000 foreign owned firms in 19 Sub-Saharan African...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011141147
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Why Do Banks Go Abroad? ; Evidence from German Data
Buch, Claudia M. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999
the abolition of capital controls seem to have exerted a greater influence on foreign assets than on FDI of German banks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755142
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Capital and Trade Flows in Europe and the Impact of Enlargement
Buch, Claudia M.; Piazolo, Daniel - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2000
The Eastern enlargement of the European Union (EU) is likely to give a further boost to trade and capital flows, yet … determinants of international asset holdings and trade flows. We find in most regressions that EU membership has a significant … candidates actual values are still far below expected ones in most cases. Consequently, we anticipate rising capital and trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755226
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Financial Development and Innovation in China: Evidence from the Provincial Data
Hanley, Aoife; LIU, Wan-Hsin; Vaona, Andrea - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
This paper investigates the role of regional financial development, in addition to FDI, for regional innovation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804174