-econometric analysis is based on a large international panel data set from the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard. Employing flexible …

unique panel data evidence of the 500 largest firms in Germany in the period 1977-2009 we test two prominent hypotheses in …The compensation of executive board members in Germany has become a highly controversial topic since Vodafone's hostile … manager power hypothesis for Germany as executives tend to be rewarded when the sector is doing well rather than the firm they …

This study focuses on ex ante performance of domestic and foreign takeover targets in Germany, one of the most … between foreign and domestic targets. -- Foreign ownership ; Germany ; acquisition ; firm performance ; services ; inward FDI …

This paper uses a newly available comprehensive panel data set for manufacturing enterprises from 2001 to 2005 to … document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … for trading internationally are about the same in West and East Germany. Compared to firms that do not trade at all two …

) can offshore routine tasks to a low-wage host country. The most productive firms self-select into offshoring, and the … impact on welfare in the source country can be positive or negative, depending on the share of firms engaged in offshoring … among entrepreneurs is higher with offshoring than in autarky. All results hold in a model extension with firm-level rent …

. Using the GPS method and a large panel data set for German manufacturing firms, we estimate the relationship between a firm …