firm characteristics for analyzing the determinants of outward foreign direct investment (FDI). The focus is on the role of … ownership shares in new affiliates. -- Multinational enterprises ; firm characteristics ; Indian locations ; German FDI …

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, compared to a control group of German firms without FDI in this host country …

available from Global Trade Alert, combined with bilateral FDI data between OECD countries and a large number of partner … FDI flows. The verdict from this analysis is clear: a country that implements new protectionist measures may expect that … about 40 to 80 percent lower FDI inflows. Trade protection does not appear to have any implications for the country’s FDI …

This paper analyzes the horizontal productivity effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) from industrialized and …

receiving FDI outperform domestic ones, while the origin of the foreign investor is of minor importance. We use three different … definitions of "South" to compare Northern and Southern FDI. Overall, we do not find strong differences in terms of firm … productivity growth between Northern and Southern FDI, irrespective of how the latter is defined. However, we find that employment …