This paper analyzes the influence of the structure of collective wage bargaining on direct investment abroad. A wage negotiations model shows that high productive firms benefit from centralized bargaining and invest therefore less abroad than under dezentralized bargaining. An empirical study...

In this article, we discuss the current pattern of territorial reconfiguration of the Brazilian industry, its current forms, and motivations in order to problematize some of the most significant challenges of the current regional issue. We have brought new evidence of how it keeps...

This paper studies the life-cycle dynamics of exporters and multinational enterprises (MNEs). We present a dynamic model of trade and MNE activity in which the mode of serving a market depends on the well-known proximity-concentration tradeoff. We show that the option of performing MNE...

Nach den aktuellen Ergebnissen des ifo Investitionstests beabsichtigen die Unternehmen des westdeutschen verarbeitenden Gewerbes, in diesem Jahr gut 6% mehr in neue Bauten und Ausrüstungsgüter zu investieren als im Vorjahr. Für das Jahr 2007 ergaben die Meldungen der Erhebungsteilnehmer einen...