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Procuring Flexibility to Support Germany's Renewables : Policy Options
Häseler, Sönke - 2015
flexibility necessary for balancing. This paper introduces a simple analytical framework to evaluate the German legislator …’s numerous efforts to address this challenge. It then proceeds to make three proposals as to how flexibility can be sourced more … cheaply. Priority should be given to measures that enable existing power markets to generate stronger rewards for flexibility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014159826
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Foreign and domestic takeovers in Germany: Cherry-picking and lemon-grabbing
Weche-Gelübcke, John P. - 2012
This study focuses on ex ante performance of domestic and foreign takeover targets in Germany, one of the most important FDI inflow destinations worldwide. Using a new database from German official statistics, unconditional comparisons as well as binary response model estimations of takeover...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294465
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Locating foreign affiliates in Germany: The case of Swedish MNEs
Braconier, Henrik; Ekholm, Karolina - 2001
This paper uses a dataset on the foreign activities by Swedish manufacturing firms to examine the performance of German affiliates compared with affiliates in other locations. It is found that German affiliates, on average, have higher labour productivity, R&D expenditure per employee and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295592
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Volatile multinationals? Evidence from the labor demand of German firms
Buch, Claudia M.; Lipponer, Alexander - 2007
Does more FDI make the world a riskier place for workers? We analyze whether an increase in multinational firms' activities is associated with an increase in firm-level employment volatility. We use a firm-level dataset for Germany which allows us to distinguish between purely domestic firms,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295859
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A Structural Model of Export versus Affiliates Production
Kleinert, Jörn; Toubal, Farid - 2005
We derive and estimate an econometric model of export versus foreign production using firm-level data on foreign activities of German multinationals. Proximity-concentration theory which we derive our model from shows that firms face a trade-off between concentrating their production at home to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296335
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Foreign-owned Firms in the German Labour Market
Keller, Dietmar; Jungnickel, Rolf - 2003
evidence of a particular flexibility in the FoFs' conduct on the labour market. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296830
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Who is afraid of political risk? Multinational firms and their choice of capital structure
Kesternich, Iris; Schnitzer, Monika - 2009
This paper investigates how multinational firms choose the capital structure of their foreign affiliates in response to political risk. We focus on two choice variables, the leverage and the ownership structure of the foreign affiliate, and we distinguish different types of political risk, such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298749
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Foreign sales strategies of multinational enterprises
Kleinert, Jörn; Toubal, Farid - 2010
The business literature has long recognized the importance of multinationals' distribution networks. The empirical analysis of distribution-oriented FDI has, however, received little attention which is at least partly due to the lack of appropriate data. We outline a slightly modified version of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301777
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The impact of locating production abroad on activities at home
Kleinert, Jörn; Toubal, Farid - 2007
We analyze whether firms that establish their first affiliate in a foreign country have a different pattern of growth in output, employment, capital and productivity than firms that remain national. We use firm-level data on German multinational activities and appropriate matching techniques to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301780
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Exchange rates and FDI: Goods versus capital market frictions
Buch, Claudia M.; Kleinert, Jörn - 2006
Economic theory provides two main explanations why changes in exchange rates can affect foreign direct investment (FDI). According to a first explanation, FDI reacts to exchange rate changes if there are information frictions on capital markets and if the investment by firms depends on their net...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301807