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 …

inward FDI stocks. For a panel of five advanced economies from 1980 to 2006 it is shown that price competitiveness, stable …-Saxon legislation also play a role. Financial competitiveness in turn encourages FDI inflows whereas it benefits fixed investment …

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 …

taxation. In our theoretical analysis we find that, as political risk increases, the ownership share tends to decrease, whereas …

This paper investigates the role of corporate taxation with respect to a multinational's investment decision, in which … corporate entities and opens up enhanced opportunities for international tax planning. The existence of preferential tax … treatment for conduit or intermediate corporate entities presumably changes the role of corporate taxation in destination …

model of multinational firms facing real and financial barriers to foreign direct investment (FDI), and we analyze their … impact on the FDI decision (the extensive margin) and foreign affiliate sales (the intensive margin). We provide empirical …

overall affiliate sales. Although quantitatively important, this Export-Supporting FDI (ESFDI) activity has received little … attention in the literature. This paper includes ESFDI into a model of trade and horizontal FDI with heterogeneous firms. ESFDI … in the home country. This introduces some complementarity between trade and FDI. In the model falling trade costs lead to …

performance to vary with foreign direct investment (FDI) and shows that the foreign expansion itself is the dominant explanatory … outward FDI would lead to more domestic worker separations. FDI raises domestic-worker retention more pronouncedly among …

sector and the real economy. Exports and foreign direct investment (FDI) have declined, presumably not only because of a lack … access to external finance on firms’ choices to export or to engage in FDI. We simultaneously model a firm’s decision to … engage in FDI and in exports, and we assess the importance of financial factors for this choice (the extensive margin) as …