accession states to the European Union. In this paper, we study the development of German FDI into the accession states from an …The opening up of Central and Eastern Europe has provided new investment opportunities for German investors. At the … aggregated, sectoral, and a firm-level perspective. We assess whether patterns of FDI into the transition economies confirm …

Affiliates of German firms in Eastern Europe differ from those in the rest of the world. They have smaller sales and … they employ more labor. Labor productivity is thus lower than in affiliates of German firms elsewhere. Moreover …, multinational activity in Eastern Europe is mostly unilaterally whereas, for industrialized countries, bilateral FDI linkages …

Affiliates of German firms in Eastern Europe differ from those in the rest of the world. They have smaller sales and … they employ more labor. Labor productivity is thus lower than in affiliates of German firms elsewhere. Moreover …, multinational activity in Eastern Europe is mostly unilaterally whereas, for industrialized countries, bilateral FDI linkages …

the years 1990-2000 to describe the regional and sectoral patterns of German FDI through gravity-type equations. We …This paper provides new evidence on the foreign direct investment stocks of German firms. We use firm-level data for … provide evidence on the patterns of FDI by sector, by size of the foreign affiliate, and by the number of affiliates per host …

the years 1990-2000 to describe the regional and sectoral patterns of German FDI through gravity-type equations. We …This paper provides new evidence on the foreign direct investment stocks of German firms. We use firm-level data for … provide evidence on the patterns of FDI by sector, by size of the foreign affiliate, and by the number of affiliates per host …

the period 1989- 2002. We find that German outward FDI increases in response to positive cyclical developments abroad and … activities of German firms to test whether foreign activities are affected by business cycle developments. We aggregate the data …

the period 1989-2002. We find that German outward FDI increases in response to positive cyclical developments abroad and … activities of German firms to test whether foreign activities are affected by business cycle developments. We aggregate the data …