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Based on balance sheet data of a sample of Austrian manufacturing firms, this paper examines the causal effect of foreign takeovers on the performance (productivity and profitability) and the growth rate of Austrian target firms. Thereby, we consider two hypotheses that an acquired...
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Dieser kurze Überblick hat neue empirische Ergebnisse zu den Wirkungen ausländischer Übernahmen auf das Wachstum des betroffenen Österreichischen Zielunternehmens präsentiert. Zerlegt man die ausländische Übernahme in eine Selektionsphase ('vorher') und eine Eingliederungsphase...
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We estimate a panel of 56 bilateral country-relationships of 7 home and 8 host countries of foreign direct investment (FDI) from 1995-2003 using a panel gravity-model setting to analyze the role of taxation as a determinant of FDI. While gravity variables explain most of the variation of FDI...
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Company-taxation policies in the Central and East European New Member States (CEE-NMS) have been frequently characterised as tax-cutting strategies in order to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). On the basis of a survey of six empirical studies a median value of the tax-rate elasticities...
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In this note we show that tax-rate elasticities of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to Central and East European Countries (CEECs) derived from statutory corporate income tax rates (STRs) are likely to be flawed. From a conceptual point of view STRs are problematic as they neither capture tax...
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This paper analyses the importance of taxes on corporate income and production-related tangible infrastructure as determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs). We operationalise taxes using effective average tax rates on the bilateral level...
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