Using a unique dataset on worldwide multinational corporations with precise location of headquarters and affiliates, I … present evidence of a trade-off between distance to the headquarters and the knowledge intensity of the foreign subsidiary … headquarters is, on average, about one percent higher in the knowledge intensity scale. I find no evidence of the knowledge …

The attractiveness for the location of multinational firms is seen as a crucial issue for the development and … population of cross-border foreign direct investment (FDI) projects, thereby exceeding the number of observations in previously … used databases by far. On the basis of 3,894 FDI projects the regional determinants of German cross-border investments in …

, Eastern Europe, Western Europe and North America) as well as in groups of countries with similar levels of knowledge (country … products. Location decisions receive the strongest influencing effects from the international experience of the firm. Firms …

The internationalisation of corporate R&D is an opportunity for firms to reach local knowledge and expertise which is … products to local needs with locally available knowledge or the whole product development process including R&D. The aim of the … 1200 firms headquartered in Germany. A second step observes whether the effects of the potential internal and external …

firm characteristics for analyzing the determinants of outward foreign direct investment (FDI). The focus is on the role of … is assessed in the context of OLS and fractional logit models, controlling for industry and location characteristics. We … ownership shares in new affiliates. -- Multinational enterprises ; firm characteristics ; Indian locations ; German FDI …

characteristics for analyzing the determinants of outward foreign direct investment (FDI). The focus is on the role of firm … context of OLS and fractional logit models, controlling for industry and location characteristics. We show that the effect of …

direct investment (FDI) raises the question whether under the conditions of a historically deep global downturn, Czech …

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 within the IAB-ReLOC project. By developing a new method for linking … development of firms with Czech affiliates and firms without FDI is compared for the same time periods. The analysis shows that …

resources, home market competition and innovationrelated location advantages for an SME's decision to engage in innovation … internationalisation effects at the firm level. The results show that export experience and experience in knowledge protection are highly …