Affiliates of German firms in Eastern Europe differ from those in the rest of the world. They have smaller sales and … they employ more labor. Labor productivity is thus lower than in affiliates of German firms elsewhere. Moreover …, multinational activity in Eastern Europe is mostly unilaterally whereas, for industrialized countries, bilateral FDI linkages …

Affiliates of German firms in Eastern Europe differ from those in the rest of the world. They have smaller sales and … they employ more labor. Labor productivity is thus lower than in affiliates of German firms elsewhere. Moreover …, multinational activity in Eastern Europe is mostly unilaterally whereas, for industrialized countries, bilateral FDI linkages …

German-based multinationals. We use two main identification strategies, based on: (1) synthetic control methods, and (2 …

investment (FDI). Using a unique dataset which allows us to observe the worldwide activities of a large panel of multinational …, compared with the unrestricted case, in the presence of a typical thin-capitalization rule, the tax-rate sensitivity of FDI is … level of FDI in high-tax countries. Regulations of transfer pricing, however, are not found to exert significant effects on …