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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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European Climate Policy and Industrial Relocation : Evidence from German Multinational Firms
Koch, Nicolas - 2016
credibility of the widespread threat of industrial relocation through FDI by EU ETS regulated firms. Specifically, our baseline …, further analyses point to considerable within-treatment variations in the relocation choice among regulated multinational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979457
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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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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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Location choice of German multinationals in the Czech Republic : the importance of agglomeration economies
Hecht, Veronika - 2015
This paper analyses the location choice of German investors in the Czech Republic based on a unique dataset covering all Czech companies with a German equity holder in 2010. The identification of the regional determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) location is an important regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289954
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Tax attractiveness and the allocation of risk within multinationals
Dinkelbach, Andreas - 2015
This paper analyzes the impact of countries' tax attractiveness on the allocation of risk within multinational groups. Our dataset contains subsidiaries located in 32 European countries and owned by parents from 90 different countries globally. We show that tax symmetry positively influences the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010511365
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The Effects of Taxation on the Location Decision of Multinational Firms : M&A vs. Greenfield Investments
Hebous, Shafik - 2013
In this study, we estimate the impacts of differences in international tax rates on the probability of choosing a location for an affiliate of a multinational firm. In particular, we distinguish between the tax sensitivity of Greenfield and M&A investments. Based on a novel firm-level dataset on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094651
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Global production with export platforms
Tintelnot, Felix - 2014
Most international commerce is carried out by multinational firms, which use their foreign affiliates for the majority of their foreign sales. In this paper, I examine the determinants of multinational firms' location and production decisions and the welfare implications of multinational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419811
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Tariff rates, offshoring and productivity : evidence from German and Austrian firm-level data
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization in terms of tarif cuts within the Eastern European enlargement on German and Austrian firm productivity. Unique matching of data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that tarif reductions raise parent firm productivity significantly. A ten percentage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952123
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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