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Spillovers from Multinationals to Heterogeneous Domestic Firms: Evidence from Hungary

Békés, Gábor; Kleinert, Jörn; Toubal, Farid - 2006

Firms cluster their economic activities to exploit technological and informational spillovers from other firms. Spillovers through the entry of multinational firms can be particularly beneficial to domestic firms because of their technological superiority. Yet, the importance of foreign firm's...

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Determinants of German FDI: New Evidence from Micro-Data

Toubal, Farid; Kleinert, Jörn; Buch, Claudia M. - 2003

the years 1990-2000 to describe the regional and sectoral patterns of German FDI through gravity-type equations. We … provide evidence on the patterns of FDI by sector, by size of the foreign affiliate, and by the number of affiliates per host … country. While market size and geographic distance have a significant impact on FDI stocks, we also find differences in the …

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A Structural Model of Export versus Affiliates Production

Kleinert, Jörn; Toubal, Farid - 2005

costs have a negative impact on the decision to engage in FDI. …

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Gravity for FDI

Kleinert, Jörn; Toubal, Farid - 2005

We derive gravity equations from three different general equilibrium models incorporating multinational firms. We show that gravity equations are particularly adapted to the analysis of foreign affiliates' activities of multinational firms. However, the different theoretical models lead to...

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Foreign sales strategies of multinational enterprises

Kleinert, Jörn; Toubal, Farid - 2010

analysis of distribution-oriented FDI has, however, received little attention which is at least partly due to the lack of …-oriented FDI is based on the trade-off between fixed and variable costs. …

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The impact of locating production abroad on activities at home

Kleinert, Jörn; Toubal, Farid - 2007

We analyze whether firms that establish their first affiliate in a foreign country have a different pattern of growth in output, employment, capital and productivity than firms that remain national. We use firm-level data on German multinational activities and appropriate matching techniques to...

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Gravity for FDI

Kleinert, Jörn; Toubal, Farid - 2007

Gravity equations explaining foreign affiliates' sales are ad hoc and hence, estimated coeffcients are hard to interpret. We therefore provide the theoretical underpinnings of the gravity equation applied to the analysis of sales of foreign affiliates of multinational firms. We argue that the...

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International sourcing, product complexity and intellectual property rights

Naghavi, Alireza; Spies, Julia; Toubal, Farid - 2011

In this paper, we propose the technological complexity of a product and the level of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) protection to be the co-determinants of the mode through which multinational firms purchase their goods. We study the choice between intra-firm trade and outsourcing given...

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