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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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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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Transatlantic free trade : the view point of Germany
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Aichele, Rahel - 2014
strong economic effects on Germany. In this paper, we put this trade policy initiative in its broader perspective. We argue … that, despite appearances, the US-German trade potential is not exhausted. We survey existing studies and find that the … project could increase per capita income in Germany by between 1 and 3%. We critically question the need for investor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010469280
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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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Are trade preferences a panacea? : the African growth and opportunity act and African exports
Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Maemir, Hibret; Mattoo, Aaditya; … - 2019
Does "infant industry" preferential access durably boost export performance? This paper exploits significant trade policy changes in the United States (US) to address this question. The expansion of Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) products for less developed countries in 1997 and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024617
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Business cycles, international trade and capital flows : evidence from Latin America
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Girardi, Alessandro - 2012
This paper adopts a flexible framework to assess both short- and long-run business cycle linkages between six Latin American (LA) countries and the four largest economies in the world (namely the US, the Euro area, Japan and China) over the period 1980:I-2011:IV. The result indicate that within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683383
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Trade and business cycle synchronization in OECD countries : a re-examination
Inklaar, Robert (contributor);  … - 2005
This paper re-examines the relationship between trade intensity and business cycle synchronization for 21 OECD countries during 1970-2003. Instead of using instrumental variables, we estimate a multivariate model including variables capturing specialisation, financial integration, and similarity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003200898
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Labour market rigidities, financial integration and international risk sharing in the OECD
Fidrmuc, Jarko (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003498778
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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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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