Foreign direct investment (FDI) plays an important role for countries or regions in the process of economic catching-up since it is assumed – among other things – that FDI brings in new production technology and knowledge. This paper gives an overview about the development of FDI in East...

We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated employer-employee data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program infrastructure files spanning two Economic Censuses (1992 and 1997). We...

Informal firms play a crucial role in both developing and developed countries, and there is evidence of a larger presence of moonlighting firms over ghost firms. The former are firms that operate simultaneously in the official and unofficial sectors, whereas the ghost firms undertake their...

Investitionen spielen eine bedeutende Rolle für das Wachstum einer Volkswirtschaft. Für hochentwickelte Industrienationen kommt es dabei nicht nur auf die Höhe der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Investitionen an, sondern auch auf deren Zusammensetzung. Vor allem weil sich Investitionsarten nach ihrer...

There are competing theories to explain the reasons behind the international competitiveness of manufacturing in Asia. Analysing these different theories will bring important lessons, not just for Asia, but for developing economies the world over. This lucid book studies industries and firms in...

The paper investigates whether liquidity constraints affect firm size and growth dynamics using a large longitudinal sample of Italian manufacturing firms. We run standard panel-data Gibrat regressions, suitably expanded to take into account liquidity constraints (proxied by cash flow scaled by...

We examined investment behavior in the Japanese manufacturing industry using investment revision data to analyze investment behavior from a fresh angle. We tested the martingale investment hypothesis and then the q-theory of investment by looking at the response of stock return and investment to...

Nach den aktuellen Ergebnissen zeichnet sich im deutschen Verarbeitenden Gewerbe für 2018 ein Anstieg der Gesamtinvestitionen, d.h. der Investitionen in neue Ausrüstungen und Gebäude, um 12% ab. Für 2017 ergaben die Meldungen der Firmen einen Zuwachs von 3%. Wie schon in den vergangenen...

While the US experienced two successive labor productivity surges in 1995 and 2000, Germany's productivity declined dramatically during the same period. We examine the sources of Germany's productivity demise using the ifo industry growth accounting database that provides detailed industry-level...