Das ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung untersuchte im Sommer 1999 die Auswirkungen von Aktivitäten multinationaler, im besonderen deutscher Firmen auf die Verbreitung neuer Technologien sowie die Innovationsfähigkeit innerhalb der ungarischen Industrie insgesamt. Die Studie wurde in...

This paper provides empirical evidence on two potential costs of shared ownership of German affiliates abroad. First, in periods of currency crises, wholly-owned affiliates, in contrast to partially-owned affiliates, seem to circumvent financial constraints by accessing capital from their parent...

This paper provides new evidence on the foreign direct investment stocks of German firms. We use firm-level data for the years 1990-2000 to describe the regional and sectoral patterns of German FDI through gravity-type equations. We provide evidence on the patterns of FDI by sector, by size of...

This paper examines how restrictions on the tax-deductibility of interest cost affect location choices of multinational corporations (MNCs). Many countries have introduced so-called thin-capitalization rules (TCRs) to prevent MNCs from shifting tax base to countries with lower tax rates. As of...