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Whole versus Shared Ownership of Foreign Affiliates
Raff, Horst; Ryan, Michael; Stähler, Frank - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
is increasing in its productivity, with the most productive multinationals choosing not to rely on a foreign partner at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700636
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Financial Frictions and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence from Japanese Microdata
Raff, Horst; Ryan, Michael; Stähler, Frank - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015
We use Japanese microdata to examine how financial market frictions affect foreign direct investment (FDI). The Japanese land price bubble and banking trouble in the late 1980s and early 1990s serve as a quasi natural experiment to identify two possible transmission channels from financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011208175
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The Heterogeneity of FDI in Sub-Saharan Africa – How Do the Horizontal Productivity Effects of Emerging Investors Differ from Those of Traditional Players?
Pfeiffer, Birte; Görg, Holger; Villar, Lucia Perez - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015
This paper analyzes the horizontal productivity effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) from industrialized and …, and North Africa. We find strong evidence of horizontal productivity spillovers to domestic firms derived from foreign …-firm presence. However, these effects are clearly dependent on domestic firms’ absorptive capacity. The largest productivity effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123766
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Foreign Direct Investment, Competition and Industry Performance.
Bitzer, Jürgen; Görg, Holger - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
Abstract: This paper investigates the productivity effects of inward and outward foreign direct investment using … the host country. Our results show that there are, on average, productivity benefits from inward FDI, although we can … identify a number of countries which, on aggregate, do not appear to benefit in terms of productivity. On the other hand, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818874
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Mobility of Research Workers and Knowledge Diffusion as Evidenced in Patent Data The Case of Liquid Crystal Display Technoloy
Stolpe, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001
This paper analyses the nature of knowledge spillovers from research and development (R&D) in the field of liquid crystal display technology by estimating the impact of inventorsÂ’ changing organizational and collaborative affiliations on the probability of citations in US patents filed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700621
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Firm Heterogeneity, Industry Characteristics and Types of FDI: The Case of German FDI in the Czech Republic
Mühlen, Henning; Görg, Holger; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
In addition to firm and industry characteristics, the heterogeneity of foreign direct investment (FDI) has to be taken into account when analyzing the determinants of outward FDI. We combine two firm-specific datasets on German firms with subsidiaries and joint ventures in the Czech Republic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010983122
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FDI Promotion through Bilateral Investment Treaties: More Than a Bit?
Busse, Matthias; Königer, Jens; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
Policymakers in developing countries have increasingly pinned their hopes on bilateral investment treaties (BITs) in order to improve their chances in the worldwide competition for foreign direct investment (FDI). However, the effectiveness of BITs in inducing higher FDI inflows is still open to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103190
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FDI Promotion through Bilateral Investment Treaties More Than a Bit
Busse, Matthias; Königer, Jens; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
Policymakers in developing countries have increasingly pinned their hopes on bilateral investment treaties (BITs) in order to improve their chances in the worldwide competition for foreign direct investment (FDI). However, the effectiveness of BITs in inducing higher FDI inflows is still open to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010982641
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Emerging multinationals, international knowledge flows and economic geography: a research agenda
Dohse, Dirk Christian; Hassink, Robert; Klaerding, Claudia - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
One of the most significant changes in the global economy today is the strong increase in outgoing foreign direct investment (OFDI) from emerging economies to industrialised countries. Whereas investment in less developed countries is often motivated by the sourcing of natural resources and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886894
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Knowledge Transfer in Global Supply Chains: Multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa
QU, Zhan; Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015
We analyze in this paper determinants of voluntary knowledge transfer from foreign investors to their local suppliers in 19 Sub- Saharan African countries using data from the 2010 Africa Investor Survey by UNIDO. We argue that not all backward linkages entail the same potential for spillovers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011208174