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Germany is a large source country for investment and technology transfer into India and Indian investments in Germany … bilateral investments flows. However, there are many market access and operational restrictions, which impact the flow of … bilateral investments. In this context, this paper aims to highlight the barriers to investment flows between India and Germany …
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The EU and the US have started negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement (TTIP) which …
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unfair comparative advantage in trade by using child labour. The results indicate that multinationals are highly sensitive …
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This paper shows that the liberalisation of foreign direct investment (FDI) tends to make the effect of labour costs on domestic investment and labour demand more negative. Using data from Germany, it then provides evidence that is consistent with this view. First, high unit labour costs...
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German reunication was a positive market access shock for both East and West Germany. Regions that for 45 years had experienced a decline in population due to their loss in market access following the division of Germany of WWII were most strongly affected by this positive shock. We use an...
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The paper argues that economic integration causes problems for the labor market of high-wage countries due to cross-border labor mobility and the accompanying increase in labor supply. Empirical evidence is provided from an analysis of regional labor market effects of German re-unification. In...
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small e.ects from trade, but more pronounced labor market e.ects from migration. Based on German model elasticities, we …
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Insufficient access to capital for high-tech growth companies is one of the key weaknesses of Germany's innovation system. This weakness is becoming a serious competitive disadvantage, especially in the context of the radical technological innovation, new business models and rapid growth...
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Over the last decade, German multinationals created about two million jobs abroad with increasing foreign direct investment (FDI). While there are many reasons for firms to go multinational and probably just as many for Germany's high unemployment, this paper aims to investigate the relationship...
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We analyse the nature of German trade-FDI linkages within the EU27 based on a simultaneous equation gravity approach … framework in explaining German trade and FDI activity. Looking carefully at cross-variable linkages we basically find … substitutive links between trade flows and outward FDI in line with earlier empirical evidence for Germany. Building upon German …
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