The paper evaluates the effect of Double Taxation Treaties (DTTs) on Spain's inward and outward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) for the period 1993-2013. Estimates produce positive and statistically significant coefficients. However, there are some differences between the inbound and outbound...

Most studies on Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) focus on the impact of their expansion through inward or outward foreign direct investment (FDI) flows. However, divestments are quite common among the operations of MNEs. In order to derive their effects, we build a computable general equilibrium...

Neben internationalen Exporten stellen grenzüberschreitende Investitionen du rch multinationale Unternehmungen (MNU) die zweite Säule der globalen ökonomischen Integration dar. Während Exporte in den letzten 40 Jahren vor der letzten Finanzmarktkrise durchschnittlich einen jährlichen...

Die aktuellsten Entwicklungen zu ausländischen Direktinvestitionen werden im jährlichen World Investment Report der Vereinten Nationen ausführlich dargestellt. Dieser Artikel fasst die wesentlichen Entwicklungen des letzten Jahres zusammen und geht auch auf das Schwerpunkthema »Investitionen...

Die UNCTAD veröffentlicht im Rahmen des World Investment Reports detaillierte Daten und Analysen zu den neuesten Trends bei ausländischen Direktinvestitionen. Der Artikel fasst die wesentlichen Erntwicklungen des letzten Jahres zusammen und geht auf das Schwerpunktthema des diesjährigen...

Non-traditional source countries of FDI play an increasingly important role, notably in developing host countries. This raises the question of whether the location choices differ systematically between traditional and non-traditional source countries. We perform Logit and Poisson Pseudo Maximum...

There is a startling gap between current thinking on, allegedly, globalization-induced changes in international competition for foreign direct investment (FDI) and the lack of recent empirical evidence on shifts in the relative importance of traditional and non-traditional determinants of FDI in...

In this paper the authors analyze the existence of profit shifting between Spain and other OECD and EU countries. Using a sample of 1,169 Spanish subsidiaries owned by foreign OECD and EU parent companies and a sample of 317 EU subsidiaries owned by Spanish parent companies, taken from the...

This study analyses the readiness of multinational enterprises to export their human resource management (HRM) system to their subsidiaries abroad, depending on the perceived quality of the system and the differences in the cultural contexts of the headquarters and subsidiaries. Using a...