In dieser Arbeit werden in vier Kapiteln vier Themen der Weltwirtschaft behandelt: (1) Weshalb konzentrieren sich intra-industrieller Handel und intra-industrielle Investitionen auf Industrieländer? (2) Wieso ist es für ein multinationales Unternehmen wichtig, dauerhaft Technologieführer zu...

Internationale Investitionsverträge – Bestandsaufnahme und Reformansätze (Kurzzusammenfassung der Dissertation, Michael Efler, 28.5.2005)Die beiden zentralen und eng miteinander verbundenen Fragestellungen dieser Arbeit sind, ob ein internationaler Investitionsvertrag abgeschlossen werden...

Ongoing globalization and the opening up of national markets have caused companies worldwide to continuously expand their international operations. However, the nature and direction of the link between increasing degrees of corporate internationalization and corporate performance still remains...

During the past decades, globalisation in all of its facets dominated many controversial debates of political leaders and common citizens and called the predominant attention of the international press and the scientific community. A major phenomenon in this context is the ongoing...

Globalisierung gilt als eine der gr??ten Herausforderungen unserer Zeit. Die zunehmende Dynamik internationaler Wirtschaftsverflechtungen beeinflusst nationale sowie lokale Strukturen und Entwicklungen. Insbesondere der Prozess ?konomischer Globalisierung stellt Wirtschaft und Politik dabei vor...

This dissertation consists of two studies related to internal capital markets and bank relationship using Japanese corporate spin-offs. The first study analyzes the relation between internal capital markets and banks by examining 137 Japanese corporate spin-offs created between the years 2001...

This thesis explores the economics of corporate investment and investigates how problems of asymmetric information and strategic interaction influence the efficiency of investment behavior. I present theoretical work and empirical results from a survey of European chief financial executives.

The purpose of this research is to explore the motivation of business group firmsto adopt pyramidal ownership structures. The traditional approach claims that pyramidsare useful in tunneling resources to other affiliates by transferring value to firms withhigh cash flow rights of controlling...

This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...

This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...