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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
In this study, we estimate the impacts of differences in international tax rates on the probability of choosing a location for an affiliate of a multinational firm. In particular, we distinguish between the tax sensitivity of Greenfield and M&A investments. Based on a novel firm-level dataset on...
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 behavior of the council members over the period 1971-2011. The results show that the best predictor of minority voting is being nominated by the trade unions: a council member...
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Do stringent environmental policies deter FDI? : M&A versus Greenfield
Bialek, Sylwia; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2015
This study examines how environmental stringency affects the location decision of foreign direct investments. We analyze a firm-level data set on German outbound FDI and innovate on previous studies by controlling for the mode of entry and applying the mixed-logit analysis. The results show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496988
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Do multinationals transplant their business model?
Marin, Dalia; Rousová, Linda; Verdier, Thierry - 2019
What determines whether or not multinational firms transplant the mode of organisation to other countries? We embed the theory of knowledge hierarchies in an industry equilibrium model of monopolistic competition to examine how the economic environment may affect the decision of multinational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119950
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Education promoted secularization
Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - 2014
Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010256208
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The German Local Population Database (GPOP), 1871 to 2019
Rösel, Felix - 2022
I present the first database of historical local population figures for all Germany. The German Local Population …-collected and assembled from more than 50 sources. The data reflect 150 years of regional development and disparities in Germany …. For example, East and West Germany are heavily diverging in population since 1945; and the divide was not reversed but …
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Military spending and innovation : learning from 19th century world fair exhibition data
Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia; Feuerbaum, Carsten - 2023
We provide quantitative evidence on the relationship between military spending and innovation in the 19th century. Combining innovation data from world fairs and historical military data across Europe, we show that national military spending is associated with national innovation towards war...
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Industrial policy and the great divergence
Juhász, Réka; Steinwender, Claudia - 2023
We discuss recent work evaluating the role of the government in shaping the economy during the long 19th century, a practice we refer to as industrial policy. We show that states deployed a vast variety of different policies aimed at, primarily, but not exclusively, fostering industrialization....
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Taxation and the financial structure of German outbound FDI
Mintz, Jack M. (contributor);  … - 2005
The paper analyzes the financial structure of outbound FDI during the period 1996-2002 by drawing on up to 54,022 firm-year observations of 13,758 German-owned subsidiaries. We find that the tax rate in the host country has a sizeable and significantly positive effect on leverage for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003297527
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Firms and collective reputation : the Volkswagen emissions scandal as a case study
Bachmann, Ruediger; Ehrlich, Gabriel; Ruzic, Dimitrije - 2017
This paper uses the 2015 Volkswagen emissions scandal as a natural experiment to provide causal evidence that group reputation externalities matter for firms. Our estimates show statistically and economically significant declines in the U.S. sales and stock returns of, as well as public...
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