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

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 …

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

productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments … matters for productivity spillover benefits. We find evidence for a u-shaped relationship between productivity growth and FDI …

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 the foreign affiliate, and by the number of affiliates per host … country. While market size and geographic distance have a significant impact on FDI stocks, we also find differences in the …

Many empirical studies in the area of foreign direct investment (FDI) exclusively focus on flows between industrialized … countries. This article makes a contribution to the still relatively sparse literature on FDI in emerging markets by estimating … determinants of German FDI flows to Latin America and Asia during the past decade. Using data contained in a newly available …

analysis with aggregated data indicates that in the eight central and east European EU member states FDI and trade are … complementary. This result is confirmed by an FDI enhanced gravity model which makes use of sectoral data provided by the Bundesbank …'s micro database direct investment (MIDI). The net effect of FDI on the trade balance is ambiguous, but FDI in high …