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The effects of taxation on the location decision of multinational firms : M&A vs. Greenfield investments
Hebous, Shafik; Ruf, Martin; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2010
M&A investments. Based on a novel firm-level dataset on German outbound FDI, we find evidence that location decisions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003974552
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Minority positions in the German council of economic experts : a political economic analysis
Potrafke, Niklas - 2013
I investigate minority votes in the German Council of Economic Experts. The dataset contains information on the voting … against the majority opinion of the German Council of Economic Experts. This voting pattern indicates that the channel of … ; German Council of Economic Experts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009732996
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Taxation and the financial structure of German outbound FDI
Mintz, Jack M. (contributor);  … - 2005
-year observations of 13,758 German-owned subsidiaries. We find that the tax rate in the host country has a sizeable and significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003297527
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Do stringent environmental policies deter FDI? : M&A versus Greenfield
Bialek, Sylwia; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2015
analyze a firm-level data set on German outbound FDI and innovate on previous studies by controlling for the mode of entry and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496988
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Do multinationals transplant their business model?
Marin, Dalia; Rousová, Linda; Verdier, Thierry - 2019
German multinational firms and 2200 of their affiliate firms in Eastern Europe. We find that three factors stand out in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119950
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Firms and collective reputation : the Volkswagen emissions scandal as a case study
Bachmann, Ruediger; Ehrlich, Gabriel; Ruzic, Dimitrije - 2017
scandal. In particular, the scandal reduced the sales of these non-Volkswagen German manufacturers by approximately 76 … materially harmed the group reputation of "German car engineering" in the United States. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011780469
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To go or not to go : emigration from Germany
Uebelmesser, Silke (contributor) - 2005
-economic reasons. The reported willingness to emigrate from Germany in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) is explained for men and … turns out that the educational background and West German residency positively affect the willingness to emigrate, whereas … German nationality, age, and the family situation are mostly negatively correlated with it. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003299171
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Was Germany ever united? : evidence from intra- and international trade 1885 - 1933
Wolf, Nikolaus (contributor) - 2008
geography of trade costs across Central Europe. There are three key results. First, the German Empire before 1914 was a poorly … integrated economy, both relative to integration across the borders of the German state and in absolute terms. Second, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771795
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Bohemians, human capital, and regional economic growth
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2009
An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region's lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861818
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The economic effects of federalism and decentralization : a cross-country assessment
Voigt, Stefan; Blume, Lorenz - 2009
This paper explores the idea that institutional details matter and that attempts to estimate the economic effects of federalism by employing a simple dummy variable neglect potentially important institutional details. Based on a principal component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003882595