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German FDI in the Czech Republic : employment effects in the home country
Schäffler, Johannes; Moritz, Michael - 2018
Do investments in the Czech Republic lead to employment growth or employment losses in the German firms involved? To address this question, a unique database about German firms with foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Czech Republic and firms without FDI in any country has been established...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795276
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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 … offshoring firms on average employ a higher share of R&D and design personnel, introduce new products more frequently to the … market, and invest more frequently in advanced process technologies compared to non-offshoring firms. Concerns that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010234572
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European Climate Policy and Industrial Relocation : Evidence from German Multinational Firms
Koch, Nicolas - 2016
This study exploits the installation-level inclusion criteria of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) to investigate the policy's causal effect on outbound foreign direct investment (FDI) decisions of German multinational firms. Difference-in-differences with bias-corrected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979457
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Value Chains and the Great Recession : Evidence from Italian and German Firms
Accetturo, Antonio - 2016
Global Value Chains (GVCs) have been one of the main transmission mechanisms of 2009 the Great Trade Collapse. Our paper provides a description of the effects of the crisis from a perspective that is both country-comparative (Germany and Italy) and on firm level. Two are the main conclusions: i)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995255
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Trade in tasks and the organization of firms
Marin, Dalia; Schymik, Jan; Tarasov, Alexander - 2014
of firm organization of Marin and Verdier (2012) to examine how offshoring affects the way firms organize. We show that … the offshoring of production tasks leads firms to reorganize with a more decentralized management, improving the … competitiveness of the offshoring firms. We show further that the offshoring of managerial tasks relaxes the constraint on managers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417179
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Trade in tasks and the organization of firms
Marin, Dalia; Schymik, Jan; Tarasov, Alexander - 2014
of firm organization of Marin and Verdier (2012) to examine how offshoring affects the way firms organize. We show that … the offshoring of production tasks leads firms to reorganize with a more decentralized management, improving the … competitiveness of the offshoring firms. We show further that the offshoring of managerial tasks relaxes the constraint on managers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438301
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Innovation and the international firm structure : theory and evidence from German firm-level data
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of oshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international context. However, when the producer loses territorial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952118
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Joint foreign ownership and global value chains effects on productivity : a comparison of firms from Poland and Germany
Szymczak, Sabina; Parteka, Aleksandra; … - 2022 - This version: May 2022
The study confronts the joint effects of foreign ownership and its involvement in global value chains (GVC) on the productivity performance of firms from a catching-up country (Poland) and a leader economy (Germany). Domestic owned firms are less productive than foreign ones, which is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013257645
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Innovation and the international firm structure : theory and evidence from German firm-level data
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of offshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003953947
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Do multinationals transplant their business model?
Marin, Dalia; Rousová, Linda; Verdier, Thierry - 2019
What determines whether or not multinational firms transplant the mode of organisation to other countries? We embed the theory of knowledge hierarchies in an industry equilibrium model of monopolistic competition to examine how the economic environment may affect the decision of multinational...
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