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Foreign Bank Entry into Emerging Economies: An Empirical Assessment of the Determinants and Risks Predicated on German FDI Data
Wezel, Torsten - 2004
The paper investigates the factors crucial in the locational decisions of multinational German banks in selected emerging markets of central and eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia between 1994 and 2001. Emphasis is placed on testing variables of macroeconomic and financial sector risk along...
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Does co-financing by multilateral development banks increase "risky" direct investment in emerging markets?
Wezel, Torsten - 2004
The paper discusses the question of whether financial participation of multilateral development banks does prompt private investors to inject more risky equity capital in emerging market banks. Using a theoretical model, it is stipulated that the presence of an official lender in a project gives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295629
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Determinants of German Foreign Direct Investment in Latin American and Asian Emerging Markets in the 1990s
Wezel, Torsten - 2003
Many empirical studies in the area of foreign direct investment (FDI) exclusively focus on flows between industrialized countries. This article makes a contribution to the still relatively sparse literature on FDI in emerging markets by estimating determinants of German FDI flows to Latin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295759
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Determinants of acquisition and failure: stylized facts and lessons for empirical studies
Köke, Jens - 2001
, we find that the industry distribution is significantly different for failure and acquisitions. This calls for some kind …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297767
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Verifying high quality: Entry for sale
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - 2017
When and how do entrepreneurs sell their inventions? To address this issue, we develop an endogenous entry-sale asymmetric information oligopoly model. We show that lowquality inventions are sold directly or used for own entry. Inventors who sell post-entry use entry to credibly reveal...
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On Innovating: An interview with Gautam Ahuja
Adbi, Arzi; Contigiani, Andrea; Szulanski, Gabriel; … - In: Journal of Organization Design 9 (2020) 1, pp. 1-11
At the 2016 SMS Foundations Session interview with Professor Gautam Ahuja, we explored the key insights of his research trajectory, with a special focus on how organizations successfully innovate. We discussed the major ideas, theories, and results that he and his co-authors generated throughout...
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Multinationals from the BRIC-countries investing in German firms: Impacts on industrial relations
Franz, Martin; Henn, Sebastian - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 27 (2020) 1, pp. 3-18
Often, investments from emerging economies in firms in industrialized countries evoke concerns among the employees in the targeted firms. Many of them are afraid of losing their jobs, or fear that the new owners could undermine existing social standards. Up to now, little is known about how such...
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Data Markets in Making: The Role of Technology Giants
Koski, Heli; Pantzar, Mika - 2019
via their technological development and strategic acquisitions of companies. We analyze the evolvement of personal data … strategic acquisitions have led them to each conquer their specific areas of dominance in the global markets for data. …
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The effects of startup acquisitions on innovation and economic growth
Fons-Rosen, Christian; Roldan-Blanco, Pau; Schmitz, Tom - 2022
Innovative startups are frequently acquired by large incumbent firms. On the one hand, these acquisitions provide an … startups just to "kill" their ideas, and acquisitions can erode incumbents' own innovation incentives. Our paper aims to assess … the net effect of these forces. To do so, we build an endogenous growth model with heterogeneous firms and acquisitions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480717
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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Competition and Competition Policy
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2006
We show that, in the case when innovations are for sale, increased product market competition, captured by reduced product market profits, can increase the incentives for innovations. The reason is that the incentive to innovate depends on the acquisition price which, in turn, might increase...
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