(1996-2009). We identify foreign inventive activity by applying the ‘cross-border-ownership concept’ to transnational patent … with persistent spatial heterogeneity in Germany. Using a pooled count data model, we estimate the effect of various … Deutschland im Zeitraum von 1996 bis 2009. Um ausländische technologische Aktivitäten auf regionaler Ebene (96 Regionen) zu …

(1996-2009). We identify foreign inventive activity by applying the ‘cross-border-ownership concept’ to transnational patent … with persistent spatial heterogeneity in Germany. Using a pooled count data model, we estimate the effect of various …

This paper investigates the role of patent protection in the global investment decisions of multinational firms. Using … comprehensive firm-level panel data of German multinationals, we investigate how changes in a host country’s patent protection … influence the extensive and intensive margin of foreign direct investment (FDI) decisions. We isolate the effect of patent …