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Foreign direct investment in the enlarged EU: do taxes matter and to what extent?

Wolff, Guntram B. - 2006

on foreign direct investment (FDI) flows and on three sub-components of these flows for the countries of the en- larged … European Union. The model in the spirit of gravity equations robustly explains FDI flows between the 25 member states. Sample … selection needs to be addressed in the estimation. We show that the different subcomponents of FDI should and indeed do react …

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Multinationals' Productivity Advantage : Scale or Technology?

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2015

The first aim of this paper is to decompose the productivity advantage of foreign multinationals into two components: the technology and scale effect. The second aim is to analyse the causal relationship between foreign ownership and these two components of productivity growth. We do so by...

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Business cycles and FDI: evidence from German sectoral data

Buch, Claudia M.; Lipponer, Alexander - 2005

the period 1989-2002. We find that German outward FDI increases in response to positive cyclical developments abroad and …

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Tax incentives and the location of FDI: evidence from a panel of German multinationals

Buettner, Thiess; Ruf, Martin - 2005

Using a firm-level dataset this paper investigates the impact of taxation on the decision of German multinationals to hold direct investments in other European countries or abroad. Controlling for firm-specific differences in the valuation of potential locations, the results confirm significant...

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Exports versus FDI in German manufacturing: firm performance and participation in international markets

Arnold, Jens Matthias; Hussinger, Katrin - 2006

This paper tests some of the predictions of recent advances in trade theory that have focused on different trade patterns of firms within the same sector. Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2005) develop a model in which innate productivity differences between firms determine the degree of...

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Foreign Bank Entry into Emerging Economies: An Empirical Assessment of the Determinants and Risks Predicated on German FDI Data

Wezel, Torsten - 2004

characteristics. Results indicate that FDI by non-banks exerted a strong pull effect on banking FDI flows, as did highly developed … variable turns out be highly negatively correlated with FDI flows. Disaggregation of the sample by region illustrates that the …

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Does co-financing by multilateral development banks increase "risky" direct investment in emerging markets?

Wezel, Torsten - 2004

The paper discusses the question of whether financial participation of multilateral development banks does prompt private investors to inject more risky equity capital in emerging market banks. Using a theoretical model, it is stipulated that the presence of an official lender in a project gives...

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FDI versus cross-border financial services: The globalisation of German banks

Buch, Claudia M.; Lipponer, Alexander - 2004

The choice between foreign direct investment (FDI) and exports has been a recurrent theme in the literature on … study the FDI-versus-exports decision for banks. We use data on the foreign direct investment stocks and the cross … international expansion of banks. Our results also suggest that FDI and cross-border services are complements rather than …

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Clustering or competition? The foreign investment behaviour of German banks

Lipponer, Alexander; Buch, Claudia M. - 2004

investment (FDI) of nonfinancial firms, but little evidence is available for banks. This paper analyses whether banks have a …

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Taxes and the financial structure of German inward FDI

Ramb, Fred; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2005

The paper analyses the financial structure of German inward FDI. From a tax perspective, intra-company loans granted by …

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