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 …

accession states to the European Union. In this paper, we study the development of German FDI into the accession states from an … aggregated, sectoral, and a firm-level perspective. We assess whether patterns of FDI into the transition economies confirm … recent theories of FDI and whether we find evidence that the heterogeneity of firms matters for FDI decisions. …