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Multinational firms and business cycle transmission : conference paper

Menno, Dominik - 2014 - This version: February 3, 2014

This paper studies the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the transmission of international business cycles … synchronized investment cycles. I also find that the relation between FDI integration and synchronization of gross domestic product … unambiguously increases investment synchronization while the effect on GDP synchronization is ambivalent. Due to mismeasurement of …

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Competition for natural resources and the hold-up problem : conference paper

Hefeker, Carsten; Kessing, Sebastian - 2014

We study the role of competition for the hold-up problem in foreign direct investment in resource-based industries. The … host country government is not only unable to commit not to expropriate investment ex post, but is also unable to commit to … the provision of local resources. In the case of competition for local resources this dual commitment problem triggers …

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Lobbying and the power of multinational firms : conference paper

Polk, Andreas; Schmutzler, Armin; Müller, Adrian - 2013

Can multinational firms exert more power than national firms by influencing politics through lobbying? To answer this question, we analyze the extent of national environmental regulation when policy is determined in a lobbying game between a government and firm. We compare the resulting...

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Identification and estimation of intra-firm and industry competition via ownership change : conference paper

Michel, Christian - 2013

This paper proposes and empirically implements a framework for analyzing industry competition and the degree of joint …

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Capacity mechanisms and effects on market structure : conference paper

Elberg, Christina; Kranz, Sebastian - 2013 - Preliminary version

and capacity payments on investment incentives and market shares of both parties. While lower price caps reduce the …

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Variable pay, industrial relations and foreign ownership : evidence from Germany ; conference paper

Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2013

We use a representative sample of German establishments to show that those with foreign ownership are more likely to use performance appraisal, profit sharing and employee share ownership than are those with domestic ownership. Moreover, we show that works councils are associated with an...

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Access to finance, foreign ownership, and foreign takeovers in Germany : conference paper

Wagner, Joachim; Weche, John P. - 2014 - February 2014

investment. We use newly available comprehensive panel data that we constructed from information collected by the German …

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Innovation, investment and the diffusion of technology in Europe : German direct investment and economic growth in postwar Europe

Barrell, Ray (ed.) - 1999 - 1. publ.

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Cartel formation with endogenous capacity and demand uncertainty : conference paper

Paha, Johannes - 2013

excess capacities that make competition more intense. One finds unstable cartels especially for low discount rates as these …

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Licensing with free entry : conference paper

Doganoglu, Toker; Inceoglu, Firat; Muthers, Johannes - 2013

The literature on the licensing of an innovation has mainly focused on some specific contract types. We show within the framework of a fairly general model that removing these contractual limitations will lead to extreme market outcomes. Specifically, we find that when the patentee can employ...

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