Similar Search Results

Measuring firm activity from outer space

Bilicka, Katarzyna; Seidel, André - 2022 - This draft: April 2022

To understand how global firm networks operate, we need consistent information on their activities, unbiased by their reporting choices. In this paper, we collect a novel dataset on the light that factories emit at night for a large sample of car manufacturing plants. We show that nightlight...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177119

Multinational firms and global innovation

Gumpert, Anna; Manova, Kalina; Rujan, Cristina; … - 2025

This paper provides an integrated analysis of multinational companies’ global production and innovation. We establish novel stylized facts using rich data on the network of production affiliates and patent activity of German multinationals. We rationalize these facts with a heterogeneous-firm...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015326180

Global sourcing and domestic production networks

Furusawa, Taiji; Inui, Tomohiko; Itō, Keiko; Tang, Heiwai - 2017

This paper studies how firms' offshoring decisions shape a country's domestic production networks. We develop a model in which heterogeneous firms source inputs from multiple industries located in different domestic regions and foreign countries. Input sourcing entails communication with...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011721740

Membership has its privileges : the effect of membership in international organizations on FDI

Dreher, Axel; Mikosch, Heiner; Voigt, Stefan - 2010

We argue that membership in International Organizations (IOs) is an important determinant of FDI inflows. To the extent that membership restricts a country from pursuing policies that are harmful to investors, it can signal low political risk. Using data over the 1971-2005 period, we find that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008699691

International investment positions and exchange rate dynamics : a dynamic panel analysis

Binder, Michael (contributor); … - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003599280

FDI determination and corporate tax competition in a volatile world

Ghinamo, Mauro (contributor); Panteghini, Paolo (contributor) - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003496828

How low business tax rates attract multinational headquarters : municipality-level evidence from Germany

Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter; Merlo, Valeria - 2009

,000 municipalities in Germany to analyze the sensitivity of the location decisions of foreign MNEs with respect to business tax rates …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806078

Complementarity of innovation policies in the Brazilian industry : an econometric study

Strube, Eduardo; Resende, Marcelo - 2009

The paper aims at assessing discrete complementarities in innovation policies in the context of the Brazilian industry in 2003. The paper considers the approach advanced by Mohnen and and Röller [European Economic Review, 2005] that focuses on supermodularity and submodularity tests for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883864

The hardships of long distance relationships : time zone proximity and knowledge transmission within multinational firms

Bahar, Dany - 2018

Using a unique dataset on worldwide multinational corporations with precise location of headquarters and affiliates, I present evidence of a trade-off between distance to the headquarters and the knowledge intensity of the foreign subsidiary's economic activity, emerging from dynamics related to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864328

The empirical relevance of the new economic geography : testing for a spatial wage structure in Germany

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - 2000

-unification Germany. We find support for a spatial wage structure for German city-district wages, and hence indirectly for the relevance … of a new economic geography model for Germany. We also find that demand linkages in Germany are strongly localised and … that the old border still matters to the extent that economic interactions between western and eastern Germany are still …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009780204