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Offshoring, Domestic Outsourcing, and Productivity: Evidence for a Number of European Countries
Schwörer, Tillmann - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
question whether this has led to productivity gains within firms. I address this question by combining industry-level data on … offshoring and domestic outsourcing with a firm panel. I find that offshoring of non-core activities has led to productivity … gains whereas offshoring of core activities and domestic outsourcing have had no such effects. The estimated productivity …
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Multinational versus national firms on capital adjustment costs: A structural approach
Lapatinas, Athanasios - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015
This paper provides a different perspective on the firm-level empirical analysis of the relation between foreign ownership and capital demand adjustment in host countries. The author estimates a dynamic structural model of investment on a sample of 4672 Belgian firms observed between 2003 and...
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More Stringent BITs, Less Ambiguous Effects on FDI? Not a Bit!
Berger, Axel; Busse, Matthias; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Roy, … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
We focus on investor-state dispute settlement provisions contained in various, though far from all, bilateral investment treaties as a possible determinant of BIT-related effects on bilateral FDI flows. Our estimation results prove to be sensitive to the specification of these provisions as well...
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Do Trade and Investment Agreements Lead to More FDI? Accounting for Key Provisions Inside the Black Box
Berger, Axel; Busse, Matthias; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Roy, … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
The previous literature provides a highly ambiguous picture on the impact of trade and investment agreements on FDI. Most empirical studies ignore the actual content of BITs and RTAs, treating them as "black boxes", despite the diversity of investment provisions constituting the essence of these...
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The emergence of multinational enterprises: Simulation results
Kleinert, Jörn - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998
In the last decades, foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased strongly among industrialised countries. U.S. companies were the first to set up foreign affiliates followed later by companies from smaller industrialised countries. This paper develops a general equilibrium model of...
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Foreign direct investment and trade in transition countries: Tracing links. A sequel
Naujoks, Petra; Schmidt, Klaus-Dieter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1995
This paper deals with the interactions between outward investments of western multinationals and export performance of their affiliates in transition countries. It argues that multinationals make an important contribution to increasing, diversifying and up-grading trade, because they are able to...
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Economic integration and FDI: an empirical analysis of foreign investment in the EU and in Central and Eastern Europe
Brenton, Paul; DiMauro, Francesca; Lücke, Matthias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998
Recent evidence suggests that regional economic integration provides an important stimulus not only to trade, but also to FDI. In contrast, the available theory on FDI does not yet provide empirically testable propositions on the effects of concurrent trade and investment liberalisation....
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Siemens: a multinational's strategy to investment in the Central-East European transformation countries
Sander, Birgit - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1995
The Central East European economies are competing for international investment capital, especially for FDI in order to support transformation. The paper explores how the Siemens AG, one of the world's largest MNCs, allocates investments towards and within Central East Europe and how they fit...
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Outward FDI by Singapore : a different animal?
Ellingsen, Gaute; Likumahuwa, Winfried; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
Singapore?s outward FDI is peculiar in important respects, even though it shares some characteristics with FDI undertaken by traditional investor countries. The focus of FDI in the manufacturing sector on lower-income Asian host countries suggests that the motivations and trade repercussions of...
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The Effects of Greenfield FDI and Cross-border M&As on Total Factor Productivity
Ashraf, Ayesha; Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
Based on original survey data, this paper analyses and compares the role of personal traits and social capital in determining entrepreneurial intentions of students in Hong Kong and in Guangzhou (mainland China). The two cities are culturally closely related but differ strongly with respect to...
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