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 …

labour demand in domestic multinationals is less sensitive to labour cost changes than in foreign multinationals. This … labour demand is about 40 percent lower in domestic than in foreign multinationals …

We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … 1999 to 2003. Our results show that foreign capital participation is associated with higher innovative activity. Inward FDI … that export, invest in human capital or R&D, or have prior innovation experience. We also find that SOEs with internal R …

present evidence of a trade-off between distance to the headquarters and the knowledge intensity of the foreign subsidiary … diminished the higher the overlap in working hours between the headquarters and its foreign subsidiary.In order to rule out … of a foreign subsidiary located just across the time zone line that increases the overlap in working hours with its …

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 …

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 …

The effect of collective bargaining on innovation has long been in dispute. At the level of theory, the hold-up problem … representative data for Germany – for many observers the exemplar of a cooperative industrial relations regime – to investigate the … impact of collective bargaining on (several measures of) process innovation and product innovation. Our cross section and …