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Exports versus FDI in German manufacturing: firm performance and participation in international markets

Arnold, Jens Matthias; Hussinger, Katrin - 2006

This paper tests some of the predictions of recent advances in trade theory that have focused on different trade patterns of firms within the same sector. Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2005) develop a model in which innate productivity differences between firms determine the degree of...

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Exports versus FDI in German Manufacturing: Firm Performance and Participation in International Markets

Arnold, Jens Matthias; Hussinger, Katrin - 2005

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The death of German firms : what role for foreign direct investment?

Franco, Chiara; Weche, John P. - 2013

This paper aims at examining the role played by inward Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) in affecting the exit probabilities of German manufacturing firms in the precrisis year 2007. We introduce two main novelties: in the first place, we include the FDI variable, dividing it between types of...

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Exports Versus FDI in German Manufacturing : Firm Performance and Participation in International Markets

Arnold, Jens Matthias - 2016

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Foreign Direct Investment and Exchange Rate Volatility: a Non-Linear Story

Jeanneret, Alexandre - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2007

This paper sheds light on the influence of exchange rate volatility on foreign direct investment (FDI), both at the theoretical and the empirical level. The novelty of the empirical analysis, which is based on a panel of 27 OECD countries over the period 1982-2002, is to provide evidence of a...

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Exports and Productivity Growth - First Evidence from a Continuous Treatment Approach

Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

A recent survey of 54 micro-econometric studies reveals that exporting firms are more productive than non-exporters. On the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible reason for this result is that most previous studies are...

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Multinational companies, technology spillovers, and plant survival

Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2003

This paper examines the effect of the presence of multinational companies on plant survival in the host country. We postulate that multinational companies can impact positively on plant survival through technology spillovers. We study the nature of the effect of multinationals using a Cox...

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Foreign ownership and productivity: New evidence from the service sector and the R&D lab

Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Simpson, Helen - 2004

This paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention to two issues neglected in the existing literature Ö the role of multinationals in service sectors and the importance of R&D activity conducted by foreign multinationals. We review...

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Stepping In and Out of the International Market: Internationalisation of Technology-Oriented Firms in Germany and the UK

Fryges, Helmut - 2004

For small high-tech firms international orientation is regarded as crucial for growth and long-term survival. Even newly founded technology based firms (NTBFs) are often internationally active shortly after their inception (?born globals?). However, in order to create jobs and have a sustainable...

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The internationalisation of British and German start-up companies in high-technology industries

Bürgel, Oliver; Fier, Andreas; Licht, Georg; Murray, Gordon - 1998

, etablierten Unternehmen herangewachsen. Aufgrund der - im Vergleich zu den USA - kleinen nationalen Heimatmärkte ist die schnelle … Mehrheit der analysierten jungen Unternehmen bereits in den ersten Lebensjahren auf Auslandsmärkten aktiv sind, angefangen vom … Verkauf über Zwischenhändler bis hin zu eigenen Auslandsniederlassungen. Vergleiche zwischen den Unternehmen und Ländern …

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