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Recent literature on multinational firms has stressed the importance of low productivity as a barrier to the cross-border expansion of firms. But firms may also need external finance to shoulder the costs of entering foreign markets. We develop a model of multinational firms facing real and...
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Does more FDI make the world a riskier place for workers? We analyze whether an increase in multinational firms' activities is associated with an increase in firm-level employment volatility. We use a firm-level dataset for Germany which allows us to distinguish between purely domestic firms,...
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Firms that invest abroad are large and more productive than their domestic counterparts. But to what extent are the international activities of firms also driven by differences across firms in terms of their access to external finance and the labor market conditions that there are facing? In...
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Recent literature stresses the importance of low productivity as a barrier to the international expansion of firms. But financial frictions or adverse employment conditions at home could matter as well. In this paper, we present new empirical evidence on the importance of these factors. We use a...
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Recent literature on multinational firms has stressed the importance of low productivity as a barrier to the cross-border expansion of firms. But firms may also need external finance to shoulder the costs of entering foreign markets. We develop a model of multinational firms facing real and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480359
Die Ereignisse des Jahres 1998 markieren für die Volkswirtschaft der Russischen Föderation einen herben Rückschlag. Es kam nicht nur zu einem dramatischen Einbruch der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung, auch die Strategie der marktwirtschaftlichen Umgestaltung steht in Frage. Dabei war erst im...
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In ihren früheren Veröffentlichungen hatten die drei an diesem Bericht beteiligten Institute die zentrale Rolle einschneidender institutioneller Reformen für die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung Rußlands betont. Mittlerweile scheint sich die Einschätzung der Institute zu bewahrheiten, daß im...
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Seit 1992 berichten das Deutsche Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung in Berlin, das Institut für Weltwirtschaft in Kiel und das Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle im Auftrag des Bundeswirtschaftsministeriums zweimal jährlich über „Die wirtschaftliche Lage Rußlands". Die Institute...
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Der Bundesminister für Wirtschaft hat mit Schreiben vom 21. Dezember 1993 das Deutsche Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Berlin, das Institut für Weltwirtschaft an der Universität Kiel und das Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle damit beauftragt, das 1992 begonnene Forschungsvorhaben...
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Recent literature on multinational firms has stressed the importance of low productivity as a barrier to the cross-border expansion of firms. But firms may also need external finance to shoulder the costs of entering foreign markets. We develop a model of multinational firms facing real and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528519