M&A investments. Based on a novel firm-level dataset on German outbound FDI, we find evidence that location decisions of …

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 …

-year observations of 13,758 German-owned subsidiaries. We find that the tax rate in the host country has a sizeable and significantly …

analyze a firm-level data set on German outbound FDI and innovate on previous studies by controlling for the mode of entry and …

German multinational firms and 2200 of their affiliate firms in Eastern Europe. We find that three factors stand out in …

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. …

-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. …

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 …