This paper combines, explains and summarizes recent findings from the empirical literature focusing on the FDI's effect … focused on Enlarged Europe. The results show that there exists a positive indirect impact of FDI on productivity and … ultimately on economic growth in EU, but it is limited in magnitude. Moreover, the effect of FDI on growth is stronger for New EU …

panel data set, we exploit the regional variation of the German business income taxation to address these issues. Our …

This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using … providing the first evidence on the role of foreign ownership for firm survival in Germany, one of the most important … for foreign owned firms in West Germany but not in East Germany. -- foreign ownership ; firm survival ; Germany …

Comparing domestic- and foreign-owned firms in Germany, this paper finds that foreign-owned firms are more likely to … focus on short-term profit. This influence is particularly strong if the local managers of the German subsidiary are not … sent from the foreign parent company. Moreover, the physical distance between the foreign parent company and its German …

data which approximately covers the universe of R&D-active plants in Germany, we exploit around 7,300 changes in the …

changes. By observing planned and realized investment volumes in a representative sample of German manufacturing firms, we can …