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Die neuen Bundesländer im internationalen Standortvergleich
Berlemann, Michael; Engelmann, Sabine; Göthel, Matthias; … - 2008
, d. h. der fünf neuen Länder inkl. Berlins, im internationalen Standortwettbewerb wurde durch einen länderübergreifenden … finden sich vor allem in den Bereichen Bildung und Forschung, damit sich die neuen Bundesländer im Standortwettbewerb um die …
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The location choices of foreign investors: A districtlevel analysis in India
Mukim, Megha; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2010
This paper analyzes the determinants of the location choices made by foreign investors at the district level in India to gauge the relative importance of economic geography factors, local business conditions, and the presence of previous foreign investors. We employ a discrete-choice model and...
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Infrastructure endowment and corporate income taxes as determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Central- and Eastern European Countries
Bellak, Christian; Leibrecht, Markus; Damijan, Joze P. - 2007
This paper analyzes the importance of taxes on corporate income and production-related tangible infrastructure as detfirminants of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Central- and Eastern European Countries (CEECs). We operationalize taxes using effective average tax rates on the bilateral level...
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Location Choices of Multinational Firms: The Case of Mergers and Acquisitions
Zitouna, Habib; Mucchielli, Jean-Louis; Bertrand, Olivier - 2004
This article examines the location choices of cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) between OECD members´ firms in the 1990`s. In addition to traditional determinants of FDI, we estimate the impact of specific factors affecting the M&A location pattern. Two distinct econometric methods...
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Effective labor taxation and the international location of headquarters
Egger, Peter; Radulescu, Doina Maria; Strecker, Nora - 2012
Profit taxes are widely acknowledged to influence the location of firms' headquarters. This paper sheds light on the role of aspects of labor taxation for the international location of headquarters. While profit taxes can be avoided in various ways, it is much harder for firms to manipulate the...
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What determines the location choice of multinational firms in the ICT sector?
Siedschlag, Iulia; Zhang, Xiaoheng; Smith, Donal - 2009
We analyse the location decisions of 8,468 foreign affiliates in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector established in 224 regions in the European Union over the period 1998-2008. Our results suggest that on average, the location probability of foreign affiliates in ICT...
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Corporate practices and national governance systems: what do country rankings tell us?
Cornelius, Peter K. - 2004
Nations compete for investment capital, and the assurances investors seek as they decide to provide that capital are universal. Motivated by the growing appetite for a global benchmark of corporate behaviour, this paper examines the relationship between the measured quality of corporate...
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Ostdeutschland im internationalen Standortvergleich
Grundig, Beate; Pohl, Carsten; Schmalholz, Heinz - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 15 (2008) 1, pp. 33-40
Investoren international attraktiv ist und wie sich die neuen Länder im Standortwettbewerb mit ausgewählten osteuropäischen und …
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Ostdeutschland im internationalen Standortvergleich gut positioniert: Ergebnisse einer Unternehmensbefragung
Grundig, Beate; Pohl, Carsten; Schmalholz, Heinz - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 15 (2008) 2, pp. 3-10
Der inter- und intranationale Standortwettbewerb um Investoren ist in den letzten Jahren stärker geworden. Zur … Identifizierung der bei einer Standortwahl zentralen Entscheidungskriterien hat das ifo Institut eine Unternehmensbefragung bei … Ostdeutschland, Osteuropa und Ostasien erfolgte im Rahmen einer weiteren Befragung durch die vor Ort ansässigen Niederlassungen. Die …
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Revealed Competition for Greenfield Investments between European Regions
Burger, Martijn J.; van der Knaap, Bert; Wall, Ronald S. - 2012
In the modern economy, cities are assumed to be in fierce competition over attracting foreign investments in leading sectors of the world economy. Despite the rich theoretical discourse on these 'wars', it remains unclear which territories are competing with each other over which types of...
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