Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 552
Cover Image
Blessing or curse?: Domestic plants' survival and employment prospects after foreign acquisitions
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2003
This paper investigates whether the acquisition of a domestic establishment by a foreign owner has any effects on the survival prospects and employment growth of that plant. The analysis uses plant level data for the UK electronics and food industries for the period 1980 to 1993. We control for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265570
Cover Image
The Effects of Foreign Owned Firms on the Labor Market
Almeida, Rita K. - 2003
Cross sectional evidence shows that foreign firms have a more educated workforce and pay higher wages than domestic firms. These results do not necessarily imply that foreign direct investment translates into higher demand for educated workers or higher wages, however, since foreign investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270574
Cover Image
What drives Chinese overseas M&A investment? Evidence from micro data
Fuest, Clemens; Hugger, Felix; Sultan, Samina; Xing, Jing - In: Review of International Economics 30 (2021) 1, pp. 306-344
In recent years Chinese foreign acquisitions have increased significantly. In Europe and the United States, these … the acquisitions lead to undesirable technology transfer, or that they may have negative consequences for the employees of … the target firm. We use a large deal‐level dataset on cross‐border acquisitions to investigate whether Chinese foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014485951
Cover Image
Cross-border mergers and Greenfield foreign direct investment
Stepanok, Ignat - 2012
and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Working in a monopolistically competitive environment, merging firms do not reduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290036
Cover Image
Countries of a Feather flock together
van Marrewijk, Charles; Garita, Gus - 2008
We analyze the economic forces underlying cross-border Mergers and Acquistions (M&As) using a large bilateral panel data set. The frequent occurrence of zero observations provides essential information on the structure of M&A flows, which we model empirically using a two-stage procedure. At the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325980
Cover Image
A multilateral agreement on investment: Convincing the sceptics
Drabek, Zdenek - 1998
Much has been recently written about the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) that has been negotiated by OECD countries. Perhaps even more has been said by the critics of those who would like to see an agreement of this kind extended among other countries. There has indeed been a great...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330164
Cover Image
Does openness to international financial flows contribute to productivity growth?
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Terrones, Marco E. - 2008
Economic theory has identified a number of channels through which openness to international financial flows could raise productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature analyzing the impact of financial openness on output growth, far less attention has been paid to its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268841
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295628
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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