and the volatility of the main capital flows — foreign direct investment (FDI), portfolio investment, and foreign bank …

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 …

. In choosing between these alternatives, they face a trade-off between higher variable distance costs when exporting and …

the period 1989-2002. We find that German outward FDI increases in response to positive cyclical developments abroad and …

In the last decades, foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased strongly among industrialised countries. U … paper develops a general equilibrium model of bidirectional intra-industry FDI between industrialised countries, in which … this specific time pattern emerges. In contrast to the existing literature on FDI, this paper shows that falling transport …

transfer of knowledge and technology and to foreign trade. It is argued that economic theory must account for multinationals …

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) occurs in temporal clusters. In contrast to the existing literature, which explains … profitable and, thus, multinational enterprises (MNE) emerge. In this process, FDI of companies from one country occurs in … clusters, because an FDI of one company increases the profitability of FDI of any other national competitor. …

the abolition of capital controls seem to have exerted a greater influence on foreign assets than on FDI of German banks …