, productivity and technological progress. This is mostly unquestioned for greenfeld investments, i.e. the case when a foreign … multinational firm sets up a new affliate. But a majority of foreign direct investment (FDI) projects takes the form of mergers and … domestic German firms that are subject to a foreign takeover regarding employment and productivity. For this purpose, I use a …

The focus of this article is the empirical identification of factors influencing Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in …-industry linkages such as specialization and agglomeration economies are relevant factors for the location decision of foreign investors …

German multinationals’ direct investments abroad and of foreign multinationals’ investments in Germany from 1996 till 2008. A … are applied for tax efficient group structuring. -- Corporate Taxation ; Foreign Direct Investment ; Empirical Analysis …