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 …

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 …

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 … confrms this finding and detects neither positive nor negative significant effects of foreign takeovers. -- M&A ; inward FDI …

trade cost advantage for retailers’ domestic suppliers, or a shift in foreign demand from which benefit all origin country … markets of other retailers. This difference in behavior for certified and non-certified exporting firms confirms the trade …

-food sector. The adopted approach draws on recent empirical evidence of the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the … retail sector and recent developments in the literature on international trade with heterogeneous firms and on trade and …, retail sector FDI generates productivity gains at the firm level: local suppliers of multinational retailers benefit from the …

FDI is an important channel for productivity spillovers across economies. But productivity and employment effects of … significant. -- FDI ; Spillover ; foreign ownership ; cross-border M&A ; productivity ; employment effects …

. Unlike previous studies, we explicitly acknowledge similarities among final migration destinations and thus partly relax the … unobserved heterogeneity in bilateral migration costs, and by adopting an instrumental variables approach. Our results suggest …

between offshoring and exports. We model a world consisting of many advanced countries that trade differentiated goods among …-industry trade with each of the advanced countries. We show analytically that a closer integration of a "workbench country" into the …

in wage-bill shares of highly educated workers and measures of non-routine and interactive tasks. -- Trade in tasks …