Similar Search Results

The internationalization process of firms: From exports to FDI?

Conconi, Paola; Sapir, André; Zanardi, Maurizio - 2010

We describe a simple model in which domestic firms decide whether to serve a foreign market through exports or horizontal foreign direct investment (FDI). This choice involves a trade-off between the higher variable trade costs associated with exports and the higher fixed set-up costs associated...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506718

Treaty Shopping beim Investorenschutz

Klodt, Henning; Lang, Stefanie - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 95 (2015) 7, pp. 482-486

Mit der öffentlichen Debatte um die Transatlantische Handels- und Investitionspartnerschaft (TTIP) ist der Investorenschutz auf der politischen Agenda weit nach oben gerückt. Strittig ist vor allem, ob solche Abkommen tatsächlich nötig sind, um das Vertrauen multinationaler Unternehmen in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404774

Treaty Shopping beim Investorenschutz - eine Replik

Dullien, Sebastian - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 95 (2015) 8, pp. 569-570

Im Juliheft 2015 veröffentlichte der Wirtschaftsdienst einen Aufsatz von Henning Klodt und Stefanie Lang zum Treaty Shopping. Sebastian Dullien weist auf eine seiner Auffassung nach fehlerhafte Darstellung des bilateralen Investitionsschutzabkommens zwischen Deutschland und Pakistan aus dem...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011773208

Treaty Shopping beim Investorenschutz - eine Erwiderung

Klodt, Henning; Lang, Stefanie - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 95 (2015) 8, pp. 570-571

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011773209

Can R&D-Inducing Green Tariffs Replace International Environmental Regulations?

Naghavi, Alireza - 2006

This paper investigates the link between trade and environment by exploring the effects of green tariffs on the … location of firms, innovation and the environment. It shows that tariffs levied on polluting goods could result in less global … emissions from production, and reducing competition. Green tariffs reduce pollution by (1) shifting production to the region …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312444

Tariff Rates, Offshoring and Productivity: Evidence from German and Austrian Firm-Level Data

Hansen, Thorsten - 2010

This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization in terms of tarif cuts within the Eastern European enlargement on German and Austrian firm productivity. Unique matching of data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that tarif reductions raise parent firm productivity significantly. A ten percentage...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427590

The Role of Multinational Enterprises in Globalization: An Empirical Overview

Kleinert, Jörn - 2001

The activities of multinational enterprises drive the economic globalization process to a very large degree. This paper lists some facts about their dominant role in all channels of globalization. Therefore, the importance of multinational enterprises in foreign direct investment and production...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260609

Cross-border mergers and acquisitions : on revealed comparative advantage and merger waves

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; van Marrewijk, Charles - 2005

By combining two large data sets (on international trade flows and on mergers and acquisitions – M&As), we are able to test two implications of Neary's (2003, 2004a) recent theoretical work. Analyzing M&As in a General Oligopolistic Equilibrium (GOLE) model incorporating strategic interaction...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275774

Unlocking the value of cross-border mergers and acquisitions

Brakman, Steven; Garita, Gus; Garretsen, Harry; van … - 2008

Most FDI takes place between the developed countries, which suggests that the market-seeking motive is important for understanding FDI. However, given the stylized fact that trade barriers (e.g. transportation costs and financial barriers) have declined over the past 20 years, models that aim to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275800

What determines BITs?

Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Egger, Peter - 2011

model of world trade and foreign direct investment with three factors, two products, and explicit natural as well as policy …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277392

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last