Foreign subsidiary performance and market efficiency effects are estimated and confronted in this paper using a rich firm-level panel for Polish manufacturing. Besides estimating total factor productivity, other performance measures are calculated and contrasted such as labor productivity,...

We study the coagglomeration of domestic plants and foreign multinationals and the impact of this on domestic plant growth using data for Irish manufacturing. To this end we make use of the index developed by Ellison and Glaeser (1997) and find coagglomeration to be important for a number of...

This study focuses on ex ante performance of domestic and foreign takeover targets in Germany, one of the most important FDI inflow destinations worldwide. Using a new database from German official statistics, unconditional comparisons as well as binary response model estimations of takeover...

This empirical paper documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly...

In this paper we examine the case for a link at the national and firm level between human resource management (HRM) and economic success in Australia. A brief history of the industrial development of Australia (and New Zealand) is presented and some differentiating factors noted (Dowling/Boxall...

Indian OFDI has increased and diversified substantially in the last 10 years. This paper uses quantile difference-in-difference measure to estimate home country effects of the OFDI decision of Indian corporate on their firm level characteristics reflected in various financial/non-financial...

This study analyzes the potential impact of the Philippines-Japan Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on the Philippine economy in case of the Philippines' discriminately unilateral tariff reduction on import from Japan using a computable general equilibrium model for the Philippine economy. The result...

Die weltwirtschaftliche Dynamik bleibt vorerst mäßig. Dabei verlagern sich die Auftriebskräfte weiter von den Schwellenländern zu den fortgeschrittenen Volkswirtschaften. Die Zunahme der Weltproduktion, gerechnet auf Basis von Kaufkraftparitäten, wird in diesem Jahr mit einer Rate von 3,3...

Die Weltwirtschaft hat sich im Frühjahr gefangen. Allerdings ist die zugrunde liegende Dynamik weiterhin gering. Für den weiteren Verlauf dieses und des nächsten Jahres ist zwar mit etwas höheren Expansionsraten zu rechnen, ein kräftiger Konjunkturaufschwung ist aber weiterhin nicht in...