the period 1989-2002. We find that German outward FDI increases in response to positive cyclical developments abroad and …

M&A investments. Based on a novel firm-level dataset on German outbound FDI, we find evidence that location decisions of … finding is consistent with a (partial) capitalisation of taxes in the acquisition price when the FDI project takes the form of …

firm characteristics for analyzing the determinants of outward foreign direct investment (FDI). The focus is on the role of … ownership shares in new affiliates. -- Multinational enterprises ; firm characteristics ; Indian locations ; German FDI …

In addition to firm and industry characteristics, the heterogeneity of foreign direct investment (FDI) has to be taken … into account when analyzing the determinants of outward FDI. We combine two firm-specific datasets on German firms with … subsidiaries and joint ventures in the Czech Republic, compared to a control group of German firms without FDI in this host country …

importance of firm-level productivity and distance-related transaction costs as driving forces of FDI. Yet the timing of FDI has … received little attention in the empirical literature on FDI determinants. To help close this gap we analyze FDI decisions by … German firms with and without affiliates in the Czech Republic at different stages of transition. We find that FDI entry …

M&A investments. Based on a novel firm-level dataset on German outbound FDI, we find evidence that location decisions of … finding is consistent with a (partial) capitalisation of taxes in the acquisition price when the FDI project takes the form of … M&A. -- FDI ; corporate taxation ; location ; M&A ; Greenfield …

This paper aims at examining the role played by inward Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) in affecting the exit … include the FDI variable, dividing it between types of foreign investor (industrial vs. financial) besides the usual analysis … with the division by country of origin. Secondly, we analyze whether FDI may have effects not only on the probability that …

population of cross-border foreign direct investment (FDI) projects, thereby exceeding the number of observations in previously … used databases by far. On the basis of 3,894 FDI projects the regional determinants of German cross-border investments in … expectations, differences emerge between manufacturing FDI and services FDI. …