This paper investigates the coordination of bargaining activities among labor unions in a Multinational Enterprise (MNE) with plants in different countries. Making use of a threestage game where the parties sequentially decide whether o coordinate negotiations, it derives the bargaining regimes...

This paper implements a panel data approach for studying the determinants of and relationships between bilateral economic activities in terms of both trade and foreign direct investment between the EU member states. The familiar equation for testing the determinants of bilateral exports is...

Bisher waren deutsche Unternehmen bei ihrem grenzüberschreitenden Engagement in anderen Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Union auf die Nutzung rechtlich unselbständiger Zweigniederlassungen oder auf die Gründung von Tochtergesellschaften in der Rechtsform des jeweiligen Investitionslandes...