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When is FDI a capital flow?
Marin, Dalia; Schnitzer, Monika - 2006 - This version: June 2006
In this paper we analyze the conditions under which a foreign direct investment (FDI) involves a net capital flow across countries. Frequently, foreign direct investment is financed in the host country without an international capital movement. We develop a model in which the optimal choice of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003368138
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FDI by early movers, followers and latecomers : timing of entry by German firms during transition in the Czech Republic
Mühlen, Henning; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2009
importance of firm-level productivity and distance-related transaction costs as driving forces of FDI. Yet the timing of FDI has … strongly depends on firm productivity immediately after the political and economic regime change, but less so with diminishing …. -- Multinational enterprises ; firm-level productivity ; distance ; timing of FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003929467
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What are the channels for technology sourcing? : panel data evidence from German companies
Harhoff, Dietmar; Müller, Elisabeth; Van Reenen, John - 2012
&D knowledge located in the US. The positive influence on total factor productivity is larger if the research of the inventors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010443152
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Combining technology and work organization : an analysis of complementarity between IT and decentralization across firms of different size
Rasel, Fabienne - 2014
productivity but the combination of IT and decentralization does not yield a productivity premium. Contrarily, for the sample of … larger firms, the results show that the productivity of IT depends positively on decentralization. The findings suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010416339
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Understanding German FDI in Latin America and Asia : a comparison of GLM estimators
Camarero Olivas, Mariam; Montolio, Laura; Tamarit … - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 1/19, pp. 1-18
The growth of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in developing countries over the last decade has attracted an intense academic and policy-oriented interest for its determinants. Despite the gravity model being considered a useful tool to approximate bilateral FDI flows, the literature has seen a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237438
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When is FDI a Capital Flow?
Marin, Dalia; Schnitzer, Monika - 2006
In this paper we analyze the conditions under which a foreign direct investment (FDI) involves a net capital flow across countries. Frequently, foreign direct investment is financed in the host country without an international capital movement. We develop a model in which the optimal choice of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427477
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International sectoral spillovers : an empircal analysis for German and US Industries
Smolny, Werner - 1995
In the paper, productivity convergence is analyzed with a broad panel of industry sector data for the United States and …-up is due to capital-deepening, but most of it is total factor productivity convergence, i.e. endogenous growth models … Germany for 1960-1990. The time-series/cross-sectoral data set allows to investigate country-specific convergence, and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009542183
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The impact of foreign acquisitions on the investors' R&D activities : firm-level evidence
Stiebale, Joel - 2010
This paper provides empirical evidence on the relationship between cross-border acquisitions and innovation activities at the firm level. In contrast to previous studies that analyze the effects on innovation in target firms, this paper investigates the effects on the investing firms. For the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003924470
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The effects of production offshoring on R&D and innovation in the home country
Dachs, Bernhard; Ebersberger, Bernd; Kinkel, Steffen; … - 2014
We investigate the effects of production offshoring on the innovation activities of manufacturing firms in the home country. The analysis is based on a dataset of more than 3000 manufacturing firms from seven European countries. We find that offshoring firms on average employ a higher share of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010234572
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Regional determinants of German FDI in the Czech Republic : evidence from a gravity model approach
Schäffler, Johannes; Hecht, Veronika; Moritz, Michael - 2014
The attractiveness for the location of multinational firms is seen as a crucial issue for the development and prosperity of regions. This article focuses on a two-country relationship and deals with the regional distribution of German multinational firms and their affiliates in the Czech...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350884