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Firm growth, European industry dynamics and domestic business cycles

Oberhofer, Harald - 2009

Based on the empirical firm growth literature and on heterogeneous (microeconomic) adjustment models, this paper empirically investigates the impact of European industry fluctuations and domestic business cycles on the growth performance of European firms. Since the implementation of the Single...

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Transfer Pricing Risk Awareness of Multinational Corporations - Evidence from a Global Survey

Jost, Sven P. - 2009

This paper investigates the transfer pricing risk awareness of multinational firms using cross-sectional data of more than 350 firms located in 24 countries and classified in 12 industries. Moving beyond the sole tax optimization motives of multinational firms, we extend the existing literature...

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European integration: a threat to foreign investment in developing countries?

Agarwal, Jamuna Prasad; Hiemenz, Ulrich; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 1995

. This has caused concerns in developing countries that foreign direct investment there may be diverted to Europe. In … investment activities in the United States. They neglected developing countries only temporarily and largely because of … their investment activities in developing countries either. Sector studies show that closer intra-EU cooperation has not …

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German FDI and Integration of Production in the EU

Keller, Dietmar; Jungnickel, Rolf - 2003

In this paper, we investigate internationalization strategies of German manufacturing firms in the European Union. We give reasons for the hypothesis that traditional market strategies had been replaced by border-crossing production networking based on the comparative advantage of host countries...

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Location Choices of Multinational Firms: The Case of Mergers and Acquisitions

Zitouna, Habib; Mucchielli, Jean-Louis; Bertrand, Olivier - 2004

This article examines the location choices of cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) between OECD members´ firms in the 1990`s. In addition to traditional determinants of FDI, we estimate the impact of specific factors affecting the M&A location pattern. Two distinct econometric methods...

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Exports, foreign direct investment, and productivity: Evidence from German firm level data

Wagner, Joachim - 2005

or foreign direct investment: only the more productive firms choose to serve the foreign markets, and the most productive …

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Exports and Productivity: A survey of the evidence from firm level data

Wagner, Joachim - 2005

While the role of exports in promoting growth in general, and productivity in particular, has been investigated empirically using aggregate data for countries and industries for a long time, only recently have comprehensive longitudinal data at the firm level been used to look at the extent and...

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A note on the appropriate measure of tax burden on Foreign Direct Investment to the CEECs

Bellak, Christian; Leibrecht, Markus; Römisch, Roman - 2005

In this note we show that tax-rate elasticities of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to Central and East European …

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Foreign Takeovers and Wages: Theory and Evidence from Hungary

Csengődi, Sándor; Jungnickel, Rolf; Urban, Dieter M. - 2005

This study discriminates FDI technology spillover from learning effects. Whenever learning takes time, our model predicts that foreign investors deduct the economic value of learning from wages of inexperienced workers and add it to experienced ones to prevent them from moving to local...

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Democracy and FDI

Busse, Matthias - 2003

developing countries and consider foreign direct investment (FDI) as a tool of exploitation. This paper tries to examine …

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