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...

Seit den 90er Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts gab es einen Disput in der angelsächsischen Literatur über die empirische Relevanz konkurrierender Ansätze zum steigenden Lohndifferential zwischen qualifizierten und geringer qualifizierten Arbeitskräften in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika:...

Using a firm-level dataset this paper investigates the impact of taxation on the decision of German multinationals to hold direct investments in other European countries or abroad. Controlling for firm-specific differences in the valuation of potential locations, the results confirm significant...