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How Low Business Tax Rates Attract Multinational Headquarters : Municipality-Level Evidence from Germany
Becker, Sascha O. - 2009
,000 municipalities in Germany to analyze the sensitivity of the location decisions of foreign MNEs with respect to business tax rates …
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It's All in Marshall : The Impact of External Economies on Regional Dynamics
Audretsch, David B. - 2015
a constantly changing world. However, this statement becomes more plausible in a dynamic context, where principles are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750329
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Do Governments Tax Agglomeration Rents?
Koh, Hyun-Ju - 2010
Using the German local business tax as a testing ground, we empirically investigate the impact of firm agglomeration on municipal tax setting behavior. The analysis exploits a rich data source on the population of German firms to construct detailed measures for the communities' agglomeration...
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The Bazaar Effect, Unbundling of Comparative Advantage, and Migration
Kohler, Wilhelm - 2007
Germany exhibits a strong reduction in domestic manufacturing production depth (bazaar effect). I argue that this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777491
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Tear Down this Wall : On the Persistence of Borders in Trade
Nitsch, Volker - 2009
Why do borders still matter for economic activity? The reunification of Germany in 1990 provides a unique natural … Berlin Wall and the rapid formation of a political and economic union, strong and strictly enforced administrative barriers … to trade between East Germany and West Germany were eliminated completely within a very short period of time. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154269
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Gravity, Distance, and International Trade
Baier, Scott L. - 2017
We review and interpret the main theoretical developments in the gravity literature from its very early, a-theoretical applications to the latest structural contributions. We also discuss challenges and implement methods to estimate empirical gravity equations. We finish with a presentation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960473
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Do Stringent Environmental Policies Deter FDI? M&A versus Greenfield
Bialek, Sylwia - 2015
This study examines how environmental stringency affects the location decision of foreign direct investments. We analyze a firm-level data set on German outbound FDI and innovate on previous studies by controlling for the mode of entry and applying the mixed-logit analysis. The results show that...
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The Ifo Investment Database
Strobel, Thomas - 2013
In this paper we present the Ifo Investment Database, which provides annual investment data for 12 investment assets in 50 German industries from 1991 onward. The data is consistent with national accounts statistics provided by the German Federal Statistical Office and is based on investments in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084902
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The Effects of Taxation on the Location Decision of Multinational Firms : M&A vs. Greenfield Investments
Hebous, Shafik - 2013
In this study, we estimate the impacts of differences in international tax rates on the probability of choosing a location for an affiliate of a multinational firm. In particular, we distinguish between the tax sensitivity of Greenfield and M&A investments. Based on a novel firm-level dataset on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094651
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Genetic Distance and International Migrant Selection
Krieger, Tim - 2015
This paper looks at the effect of the relatedness of two countries, measured by their genetic distance, on educational migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 main destination countries in 2000 and show that...
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