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Mikroökonomische Determinanten und Effekte von FDI am Beispiel Baden-Württemberg

Arndt, Christian; Mattes, Anselm - 2008

In this paper we analyze the microeconomic determinants and effects of FDI using data on a representative sample of … firms invest abroad. Market seeking is the predominant motive behind FDI. At the same time a considerable number of … employees is affected by the bene-fits and drawbacks of internationalization. Labor demand regressions show that FDI does not …

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Cross-border mergers and acquisitions of multinational firms: New firm-level evidence

Arndt, Christian; Mattes, Anselm - 2010

FDI is an important channel for productivity spillovers across economies. But productivity and employment effects of …

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The impact of horizontal and vertical FDI on labor demand for different skill groups

Mattes, Anselm - 2009

This paper analyzes the determinants and effects of firm-level FDI flows on the basis of German micro-level data …. Concering the determinants of FDI, I differentiate between different target regions and motivations for FDI (market seeking …/horizontal FDI versus cost reducing/vertical FDI). The main result is that most firms engage in FDI because of market access. Further …

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Do exporting firms benefit from retail internationalization? Evidence from France

Cheptea, Angela; Emlinger, Charlotte; Latouche, Karine - 2015

We explore the link between globalization of the retail sector and the export activity of firms from their origin country. In a previous paper (Cheptea et al., 2015), we showed that exporting firms from countries with internationalized retail companies benefit more from this process than firms...

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Who Goes East? The Impact of Enlargement on the Patterns of German FDI

Buch, Claudia M.; Kleinert, Jörn - 2006

, multinational activity in Eastern Europe is mostly unilaterally whereas, for industrialized countries, bilateral FDI linkages …

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Banking globalization: international consolidation and mergers in banking

Buch, Claudia M.; Spindler, Markus - 2008

This paper surveys recent literature on international mergers and acquisitions in banking. We focus on three main questions. First, what are the determinants of cross-border mergers of commercial banks? Second, do cross-border mergers affect the efficiency of banks? Third, what are the risk...

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Network and border effects: Where do foreign multinationals locate in Germany?

Spies, Julia - 2009

This study assesses the determinants of location choices of foreign multinational firms at the level of German federal states. Adjacency and existing firm networks are assumed to influence the investors' profits in a given location by overcoming informational disadvantages when entering the new...

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International M&A: Evidence on effects of foreign takeovers

Mattes, Anselm - 2010

multinational firm sets up a new affliate. But a majority of foreign direct investment (FDI) projects takes the form of mergers and … acquisitions (M&A). This kind of inward FDI is much more critically debated. The focal point of this paper is the development of …

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Offshoring and the onshore composition of tasks and skills

Becker, Sascha O.; Ekholm, Karolina; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2009

We analyze the relationship between offshoring and the onshore workforce composition in German multinational enterprises (MNEs), using plant data that allow us to discern tasks, occupations, and workforce skills. Offshoring is associated with a statistically significant shift towards more...

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Export-magnification effect of offshoring

Kleinert, Jörn; Zorell, Nico - 2010

We propose a multi-country general equilibrium model with three sectors and heterogeneous firms to analyze the linkages between offshoring and exports. We model a world consisting of many advanced countries that trade differentiated goods among each other and one 'workbench country' that...

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