In den letzten Jahren haben sich die Wirtschaften in den neuen EU-Beitrittsländern zu einem begehrten Investitionsziel entwickelt. Obwohl nur ca. 5-6% der deutschen Direktinvestitionen nach Mittel- und Osteuropa fließen, zeigt das Buch, dass diese Region auch nach dem EU-Beitritt von 8...

This paper analyzes the effects of foreign direct investment on the sales growth rate of domestic companies in the Czech Republic. Using firm-level panel data from 1995 to 2003, it studies both horizontal and vertical spillovers. The study allows for the lagged nature of spillovers and pays...

We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...