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,...

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...

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...

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...

The world economy is expanding at a more moderate pace with growth momentum continuing to shift from emerging to advanced economies. World GDP will increase by 3.3 per cent this year - even some-what less than the already modest growth in the recent past. For 2016 and 2017 we expect growth to...

The world economy seems to have stabilized in the first months of the year. The underlying growth dynamics, however, remain weak although we expect growth to accelerate somewhat going forward. This year, global output (at PPP exchange rates) will expand by 3.1 percent, which is close to last...