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

Arnold, Jens Matthias; Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

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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FDI and Taxation: A Meta-Study

Feld, Lars P.; Heckemeyer, Jost Henrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

resorted to empirical analysis in order to gain insights on the elasticity of FDI with respect to company taxation. As a result … empirical evidence. In this paper we extend former meta-analyses on FDI and taxation in three ways. First, we add the most …, we address some important issues in research on FDI and taxation to the clarification of which meta-analysis can make …

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The Effects of Multinationals? Profit Shifting Activities on Real Investments

Overesch, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

This paper investigates whether the size of multinationals? real investments in a high-tax country is affected by profit shifting activities. A simple theoretical analysis shows that tax rates abroad impact the cost of capital in the presence of profit shifting activities of multinational...

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Does exchange of information between tax authorities influence multinationals' use of tax havens?

Braun, Julia; Weichenrieder, Alfons - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015

Since the mid-1990s, countries offering tax systems that facilitate international tax avoidance and evasion have been facing growing political pressure to comply with the internationally agreed standards of exchange of tax information. Using data of German investments in tax havens, we find...

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What lures cross-border venture capital inflows?

Schertler, Andrea; Tykvová, Tereza - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

The change in the business model of venture capitalists from investing locally towards investing across borders started to intensify in the late 1990s. According to a dataset of European and North-American countries, we find that countries with higher expected growth and higher lagged stock...

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Venture capital and internationalization

Schertler, Andrea; Tykvová, Tereza - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

Cross-border investments represent a substantial share of venture capital activities. We use a new and comprehensive dataset on worldwide investments to analyze the internationalization of venture capital financing. Our results from the perspectives of (i) venture capitalists, (ii) portfolio...

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Rivals or partners? Evidence from Europe's international private equity deals

Schertler, Andrea; Tykvová, Tereza - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

Cross-border private equity deals have increased substantially in recent years. This study looks at the issue of how European investors view their local counterparts in the portfolio companies? home countries. If they regard them as rivals, they will target countries that lack a private equity...

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Capital Mobility within EMU

Stirböck, Claudia; Heinemann, Friedrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999

Capital mobility is helpful to cope with the loss of adjustment instruments in EMU. High capital mobility in the sense of Feldstein and Horioka (FH) can limit the negative consequences of shocks affecting the saving capacity of an economy in the Eurozone. It is the aim of this paper to assess...

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Agglomeration tendencies in EU regions: where does capital go?

Stirböck, Claudia - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

This paper focuses on two aspects being neglected in the analysis of agglomeration tendencies so far. First, it regards regional agglomeration patterns and secondly, the allocation of capital across industrial sectors. Indeed, the average relative concentration of capital turns out to be of a...

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Die Struktur kollektiver Lohnverhandlungen und Auslandsdirektinvestitionen in der OECD

Peters, Ralf-Henning; Schneiders, Kerstin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999

In diesem Beitrag wird der Einfluß der Strucktur kollektiver Lohnverhandlungen auf ausfließende Direktinvestitionen analysiert. Verwendet werden Daten von 19 OECD-Ländern für die Jahre 1980, 1990 und 1994. Der Zentralisations- und der Koordinationsgrad der Lohnverhandlungen haben einen...

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