This study assesses the determinants of location choices of foreign multinational firms at the level of German federal states. Adjacency and existing firm networks are assumed to influence the investors' profits in a given location by overcoming informational disadvantages when entering the new...

The purpose of this paper is to assess the implications of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) accession of eight Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) on their share in EMU-12 imports. Overcoming biases related to endogeneity, omitted variables and sample selection, our results...

China wird als Außenhandelspartner der EU zunehmend bedeutend. Welche Produkte werden gehandelt? Wie kam es zu Handelskonflikten? Welche Chancen und Risiken gibt es im Außenhandel mit China? Welche Handelsstrategie sollte die Europäische Union gegenüber China verfolgen?

In this paper, we propose the technological complexity of a product and the level of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) protection to be the co-determinants of the mode through which multinational firms purchase their goods. We study the choice between intra-firm trade and outsourcing given...

Sowohl beim Außenhandel wie auch bei den Direktinvestitionen weisen insbesondere große und nahe gelegene Bundesländer eine starke Verflechtung mit Österreich auf, wobei traditionelle Sektoren wie der Maschinen- und Kraftwagenbau im Außenhandel noch immer eine dominante Position einnehmen....

This paper claims that distance alone is a poor proxy for international transport costs in gravity equations. We develop a theoretical framework with a manufacturing and a transport sector, where the level of manufacturing exports determines the demand for transport. Above a certain threshold,...

In this paper, we propose the technological complexity of a product and the level of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) protection to be the co-determinants of the mode through which multinational firms purchase their goods. We study the choice between intra-firm trade and outsourcing given...

In this paper, we propose the technological complexity of a product and the level of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) protection to be the co-determinants of the mode through which multinational firms purchase their goods. We study the choice between intra-firm trade and outsourcing given...