This paper studies the determinants of Austrian bilateral intra-firm trade in a panel of industry-level intra-firm goods trade flows. Economic size, unit labor costs and the magnification effects originating from multiple border crossing of sequentially finished products are found to be the most...

This paper provides new evidence on the foreign direct investment stocks of German firms. We use firm-level data for the years 1990-2000 to describe the regional and sectoral patterns of German FDI through gravity-type equations. We provide evidence on the patterns of FDI by sector, by size of...

This paper studies the determinants of Austrian bilateral intrafirm trade in a panel of industry-level intrafirm goods trade flows. Economic size, unit labor costs and the magnification effects originating from multiple border crossing of sequentically finished products are found to be the most...