The present paper argues that the effect of corruption on foreign ownership is not necessarily linear and depends on … the level of host corruption. So long as the expected returns from foreign investments exceed its expected costs, higher … host corruption will be associated with higher foreign ownership. However, costs may exceed or exactly compensate the …

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 … destination countries for foreign direct investments. Our micro-econometric analysis reveals a ceteris paribus higher risk of exit …

Comparing domestic- and foreign-owned firms in Germany, this paper finds that foreign-owned firms are more likely to … sent from the foreign parent company. Moreover, the physical distance between the foreign parent company and its German … subsidiary increases the probability of focusing on short-term profit. These findings conform to the hypothesis that foreign …

We investigate differences in gender wage gaps between foreign-owned and domestically-owned firms in Poland, a country … show that according to standard estimates of adjusted gender wage gaps, these differences are much larger in the foreign … slightly smaller than those in foreign-owned companies. Our results also indicate that women tend to segregate into low …

How much do developing countries benefit from foreign investment? We contribute to this question by comparing the … employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data. In order to … control for unobserved worker differences, we examine both foreign acquisitions and divestments and worker mobility, including …

The stylized literature on foreign direct investment suggests that developing countries should invest in the human … capital of their labour force in order to attract foreign direct investment. However, if educational quality in developing …

part of this, existing restrictions on foreign ownership structure and mandatory export and technology transfer … requirements imposed on foreign firms have been lifted in a number of industries. Against this background we identify the causal … effects of foreign acquisitions on export market entry and technology take-off and evaluate whether the level of foreign …

MFP gains from privatization are decreasing in pre-privatization MFP. The relatively few cases in which foreign investors … much lower when the foreign source country is "offshore" - an indirect channel for Ukrainian nationals - and it is also …

We analyze an oligopolistic market where a domestic and a foreign firm are engaged in a takeover battle for a domestic … of government. With an unbiased competition agency we find that the foreign takeover is more likely to occur the higher … foreign attempts to acquire domestic firms. …