This paper analyzes the impact of taxation on the location of patents within multinational groups. Based on groups with … of royalties, R&D incentives, and transfer pricing rules help to explain the patent-location choices of multinationals. …

investment (FDI) location is an important regional policy issue as FDI is supposed to improve the labour market conditions of the …This paper analyses the location choice of German investors in the Czech Republic based on a unique dataset covering … the location choice decision is investigated. The main result of the paper is that apart from a low distance to the …

) to investigate the policy's causal effect on outbound foreign direct investment (FDI) decisions of German multinational … credibility of the widespread threat of industrial relocation through FDI by EU ETS regulated firms. Specifically, our baseline … their FDI activity outside the EU compared to a counterfactual scenario. Paradoxically, relocating firms neither operate in …

M&A investments. Based on a novel firm-level dataset on German outbound FDI, we find evidence that location decisions of … location for an affiliate of a multinational firm. In particular, we distinguish between the tax sensitivity of Greenfield and … M&A investments are less sensitive to differences in tax rates than location decisions of Greenfield investments …

This article explores the extent to which the regional higher education system (HES) influences the location of foreign … research and development (R&D). To do so, we use a dataset with information on the location choices of new foreign R … by the quality of its scientific research, while its research training capacity and knowledge transfer activities do not …

This study examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on local firms' productivity via human capital … due to the Republic of Korea's visa regulations. We find that the industry and regional FDI positively affect local firms …' productivity, particularly firms with higher growth in hiring skilled foreign employees. This human capital spillover from FDI is …

estimation of production functions together with information on prices and quantities to estimate physical productivity, markups …

This paper focuses on the role of classifying types of foreign direct investment (FDI) for analyzing the determinants … investment (VFDI) and horizontal foreign direct investment (HFDI). Apart from data for conventional approaches to classify FDI … to companies without investment abroad. The results for the direct measures of FDI types confirm theoretical expectations …