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Employment Protection and Firm Relocation: Theory and Evidence
Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Temouri, Yama - In: Economica 86 (2019) 344, pp. 663-688
We examine the determinants of the decision to relocate activities abroad for firms located in OECD countries. We argue that particular firm-specific features play a crucial role for the link between employment protection and relocation. Stricter employment protection laws over time in the...
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Ausländische Unternehmen und Übernahmeeffekte: Neue Fakten für Deutschland
Weche Gelübcke, John P. - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 93 (2013) 4, pp. 247-251
Die Übernahme deutscher Firmen durch ausländische Investoren und die allgemeine Präsenz derselben wird zwiespältig beurteilt: Auf der einen Seite werden Investitionen gefördert, um von Produktivitäts-Spillovern zu profitieren, andererseits wird befürchtet, dass es unter anderem zu einem...
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Stärkere Diversifizierung der Importe von Gütern der Informationstechnologie: Vorteile überwiegen
Schiersch, Alexander; Bertschek, Irene; Niebel, Thomas - In: DIW Wochenbericht 90 (2023) 46, pp. 637-643
Die Bedeutung der internationalen Beschaffung von Vorleistungen hat in den zurückliegenden Dekaden zugenommen. Dies gilt auch für Güter aus dem Bereich der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (IKT), beispielsweise Mikrochips, die ein wichtiger Input in der heimischen Produktion sind...
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Sources of value creation in service global value chains
Stare, Metka; Jaklič, Andreja - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 22 (2020) 55, pp. 846-866
Multiple dimensions of services and service functions in global value chains (GVCs) are not sufficiently explored, particularly so when considering the perspective of Central and East European (CEE) countries as suppliers of services. A comprehensive conceptual framework for the analysis of GVCs...
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Ausländische Unternehmensübernahmen: keine negativen Folgen für Beschäftigung und Produktivität
Mattes, Anselm - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 42, pp. 2-7
Wenn ausländische Unternehmen im Rahmen von Unternehmensübernahmen und -fusionen die Kontrolle über deutsche Betriebe übernehmen, befürchten Regierungsvertreter und Gewerkschaften oftmals Produktionsverlagerungen ins Ausland sowie den Verlust von Einfluss und Arbeitsplätzen. Die aktuell...
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Multinationals from the BRIC-countries investing in German firms: Impacts on industrial relations
Franz, Martin; Henn, Sebastian - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 27 (2020) 1, pp. 3-18
Often, investments from emerging economies in firms in industrialized countries evoke concerns among the employees in the targeted firms. Many of them are afraid of losing their jobs, or fear that the new owners could undermine existing social standards. Up to now, little is known about how such...
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The impact of cross-border mergers and acquisitions on the acquirers' R & D Firm-level evidence
Stiebale, Joel - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 31 (2013) 4, pp. 307-321
This paper provides empirical evidence on the relationship between cross-border acquisitions and innovation activities … of domestic expenditures for research and development. Controlling for endogeneity of foreign acquisitions by estimating … effects on tangible investment spending and by a comparison of the effects of cross-border acquisitions to those of greenfield …
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Unions' bargaining coordination in multinational enterprises
Buccella, Domenico - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 4 (2013) 4, pp. 373-392
This paper investigates the patterns of bargaining in multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the presence of labor unions coordination activities. It derives the bargaining regimes which arise as sub-game perfect equilibria, and considers both simultaneous and sequential games where parties choose...
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Multinational Financial Structure and Tax Competition
Wrede, Matthias - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 149 (2013) 3, pp. 381-404
This paper analyzes tax competition when welfare maximizing jurisdictions levy source-based corporate taxes and multinational enterprises choose tax-efficient capital-to-debt ratios. Under separate accounting, multinationals shift debt from low-tax to high-tax countries. The Nash equilibrium of...
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Export, FDI and firm productivity
Engel, Dirk; Procher, Vivien - In: Applied Economics 44 (2012) 15, pp. 1931-1940
Many empirical papers tested the theoretical predictions of Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (HMY, 2004) which sorts firms at different internationalization states according to their productivity levels. While these papers ignore the fact, that the theoretical predictions of HMY only apply to firms...
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