The authors provide evidence on the impact of foreign ownership on labor market outcomes analyzing pay differences between foreign-acquired and domestically owned firms. For this purpose, they use firm-level data from 16 European countries over the time period 19992006. Combing propensity score...

The scientific literature provides evidence for an impact of company taxes on investments. Practitioners, however, have a skeptical view on the meaning of this effect. This paper builds the bridge between research and the interested practice by providing detailed descriptives and clearly showing...

What motivates companies to invest in corporate social responsibility (CSR)? Analysing CSR in the global sportswear industry, this paper advances the hypothesis that the campaigning activities of human rights activists pushed industry leaders Nike and adidas to incorporate labour norms in their...

Für die mittelständische Wirtschaft in Deutschland, die zunehmend auf gesättigten Märkten agiert, kann ein Unternehmenswachstum häufig nur durch den Schritt über die Grenze erzielt werden. Neben dem organischen Wachstum besteht die Möglichkeit, mittels Unternehmensakquisitionen die...

Anzahl sowie Transaktionenvolumen internationaler, also grenzüberschreitender Unternehmenskäufe und -fusionen haben in den letzten Jahren stetig zugenommen. Getrieben durch verstärkten Wettbewerbsdruck und gestiegene Anforderungen an die Performance seitens der Kapitalgeber sind Unternehmen...

In der Literatur finden sich zahlreiche Abhandlungen zu der Frage, welche Besonderheiten bei internationalen, also grenzüberschreitenden Unternehmensakquisitionen auftreten und in welcher Weise diese im Zuge einer Grenzpreisermittlung zu berücksichtigen sind. Als im Wesentlichen zu würdigende...

We study the effect of the intellectual property rights (IPR) regime of a host country (South) on a multinational's decision between serving a market via greenfield foreign direct investment to avoid the exposure of its technology or entering a joint venture (JV) with a local firm, which allows...

This paper investigates the link between trade and environment by exploring the effects of green tariffs on the location of firms, innovation and the environment. It shows that tariffs levied on polluting goods could result in less global pollution than harmonization of environmental standards...

This paper analyzes welfare implications of protecting intellectual property rights (IPR) in the framework of TRIPS for developing countries (South) through its impact on innovation, market structure and technology transfer. In a North-South trade environment, the South sets its IPR policy...