This study presents the first investigation into the performance of foreign - controlled enterprises in German …. The analysis revealed a foreign ownership performance premium with regard to productivity, R&D and export intensities, and … comparison groups of indigenous firms and separating for high- and low-tech sectors. Furthermore, a breakdown by country of …

This study provides first comprehensive analyses of foreign-controlled enterprises in the German service sector based … conditional means and quantile regression techniques were applied. Results reveal persistently superior performance for foreign …. Labor productivity becomes insignificant when the comparison group consists of domestically-owned affiliates with a high …

This paper provides new evidence on the foreign direct investment stocks of German firms. We use firm-level data for … provide evidence on the patterns of FDI by sector, by size of the foreign affiliate, and by the number of affiliates per host … determinants of FDI between sectors as well as between the size of foreign affiliates and the number of foreign affiliates. …

While quantifying the foreign ownership premium has received a lot of attention in the empirical literature, there is … only little known about productivity variations between foreign affiliates of multinational firms. In order to enhance the …-determine the foreign-owned affiliates’ performances in a significant way. Moreover, the intensity of the impact depends on the …

This study focuses on ex ante performance of domestic and foreign takeover targets in Germany, one of the most … between foreign and domestic targets. -- Foreign ownership ; Germany ; acquisition ; firm performance ; services ; inward FDI …

With this paper we present the first microeconometric analysis of the impact of a foreign acquisition on the target … between foreign ownership and access to finance in Germany, one of the world's leading target countries for foreign direct … statistical offices and from credit rating scores supplied by the leading German credit rating agency. We find foreign owned firms …

This study provides the first comparative evidence of foreign and domestic acquisitions in Germany. A propensity score … matching approach combined with a difference-in-difference estimator were performed separately for foreign and domestic … enterprises, provided by German official statistics. The results indicate a negative impact of foreign takeovers on employment and …

In this paper we present the first evidence for a link between foreign ownership and credit constraints for Germany …, one of the world's leading target countries for foreign direct investment. Furthermore, we contribute to the literature by … investigating the impact of a foreign acquisition on the target firms' credit constraints for the first time. We use newly available …