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Exports versus FDI in German Manufacturing: Firm Performance and Participation in International Markets
Arnold, Jens Matthias; Hussinger, Katrin - 2005
This paper tests some of the predictions of recent advances in trade theory that have focused on different trade patterns of firms within the same sector. Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2005) develop a model in which innate productivity differences between firms determine the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297485
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What Determines Relative Sectoral Investment Patterns in EU Regions?
Stirböck, Claudia - 2002
This study analyses relative sectoral investment patterns in EU regions. In an exploratory spatial data analysis, spatial clusters of high relative investments can be identified for some sectors. In the econometric analysis, we control for heteroscedasticity and potential endogeneity and find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297905
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Readdressing the trade effect of the Euro: Allowing for currency misalignment
Hogrefe, Jan; Jung, Benjamin; Kohler, Wilhelm K. - 2010
We know that euro-area member countries have absorbed asymmetric shocks in ways that are inconsistent with a common nominal anchor. Based on a reformulation of the gravity model that allows for such bilateral misalignment, we disentangle the conventional trade cost channel and trade effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300380
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Does foreign direct investment synchronise business cycles? Results from a panel approach
Fries, Claudia; Kappler, Marcus - 2015
This study readdresses the determinants of business cycle synchronisation. We test, on the one hand, whether FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010527431
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Exports versus FDI in German Manufacturing: Firm Performance and Participation in International Markets
Arnold, Jens Matthias; Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
This paper tests some of the predictions of recent advances in trade theory that have focused on different trade patterns of firms within the same sector. Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2005) develop a model in which innate productivity differences between firms determine the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097979
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Agglomeration tendencies in EU regions: where does capital go?
Stirböck, Claudia - 2001
This paper focuses on two aspects being neglected in the analysis of agglomeration tendencies so far. First, it regards regional agglomeration patterns and secondly, the allocation of capital across industrial sectors. Indeed, the average relative concentration of capital turns out to be of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297765
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The Effects of Multinationals? Profit Shifting Activities on Real Investments
Overesch, Michael - 2007
This paper investigates whether the size of multinationals? real investments in a high-tax country is affected by profit shifting activities. A simple theoretical analysis shows that tax rates abroad impact the cost of capital in the presence of profit shifting activities of multinational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297971
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FDI and Taxation: A Meta-Study
Feld, Lars P.; Heckemeyer, Jost Henrich - 2008
resorted to empirical analysis in order to gain insights on the elasticity of FDI with respect to company taxation. As a result … empirical evidence. In this paper we extend former meta-analyses on FDI and taxation in three ways. First, we add the most …, we address some important issues in research on FDI and taxation to the clarification of which meta-analysis can make …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298710
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What lures cross-border venture capital inflows?
Schertler, Andrea; Tykvová, Tereza - 2010
The change in the business model of venture capitalists from investing locally towards investing across borders started to intensify in the late 1990s. According to a dataset of European and North-American countries, we find that countries with higher expected growth and higher lagged stock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299936
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Capital Mobility within EMU
Stirböck, Claudia; Heinemann, Friedrich - 1999
Capital mobility is helpful to cope with the loss of adjustment instruments in EMU. High capital mobility in the sense of Feldstein and Horioka (FH) can limit the negative consequences of shocks affecting the saving capacity of an economy in the Eurozone. It is the aim of this paper to assess...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297621