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Corporate values in local contexts: Work systems and workers' welfare in Western and Eastern Europe
Kahancová, Marta - 2007
work practices, namely work systems and fringe benefits, in a Dutch multinational company (MNC) and its manufacturing … der Basis von Analysen der Produktions- und Arbeitsbedingungen und der vom Unternehmen gewährten freiwilligen … Zusatzleistungen in einem niederländischen multinationalen Unternehmen mit Niederlassungen in West- und Osteuropa beantwortet werden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302803
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Siemens: a multinational's strategy to investment in the Central-East European transformation countries
Sander, Birgit - 1995
The Central East European economies are competing for international investment capital, especially for FDI in order to support transformation. The paper explores how the Siemens AG, one of the world's largest MNCs, allocates investments towards and within Central East Europe and how they fit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261733
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The Organization of European Multinationals
Marin, Dalia; Rousová, Linda - 2011
Recent literature on international trade has established that the most productive firms become multinationals. But our data reveal a startling variation in productivity levels of foreign affiliates across the countries in Eastern Europe of the same European multinational parent firms suggesting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427605
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Exports, foreign direct investment, and productivity: Evidence from German firm level data
Wagner, Joachim - 2005
This paper presents the first empirical test with German establishment level data of a hypothesis derived by Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to serve foreign markets either trough exports or foreign direct investment: only the more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295451
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Exports versus FDI in German manufacturing: firm performance and participation in international markets
Arnold, Jens Matthias; Hussinger, Katrin - 2006
This paper tests some of the predictions of recent advances in trade theory that have focused on different trade patterns of firms within the same sector. Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2005) develop a model in which innate productivity differences between firms determine the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295792
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Exports versus FDI in German Manufacturing: Firm Performance and Participation in International Markets
Arnold, Jens Matthias; Hussinger, Katrin - 2005
This paper tests some of the predictions of recent advances in trade theory that have focused on different trade patterns of firms within the same sector. Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2005) develop a model in which innate productivity differences between firms determine the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297485
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Exports, foreign direct investment and the costs of corporate taxation
Keuschnigg, Christian - 2007
This paper develops a model of a monopolistically competitive industry with extensive and intensive business investment and shows how these margins respond to changes in average and marginal corporate tax rates. Intensive investment refers to the size of a firm's capital stock. Extensive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264223
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The Impact of FDI on Innovation in Target Firms
Stiebale, Joel; Reize, Frank - 2008
This paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the welfare effects of foreign direct investment by investigating the effects of cross-border mergers and acquisitions on innovation activities in target firms. The empirical analysis is based on survey and ownership data for a large sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264721
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Exports, foreign direct investment and productivity: evidence from German firm level data
Wagner, Joachim - 2005
This paper presents the first empirical test with German establishment level data of a hypothesis derived by Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to serve foreign markets either trough exports or foreign direct investment: only the more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265111
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Exports, international investment, and plant performance: evidence from a non-parametric test
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2003
This paper compares the performance of purely domestic plants, domestic exporters and domestic multinationals. For our empirical analysis we utilise a non-parametric approach based on the principle of first order stochastic dominance. We find that the distributions for multinationals dominate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265597