Die Studie untersucht die Berichterstattung zur griechischen Staatsschuldenkrise im ersten Halbjahr 2015 in der deutschen Medienöffentlichkeit am Beispiel bundesweiter Tageszeitungen sowie der Onlineplattform "Spiegel Online". Mittels quantitativer Inhaltsanalyse der Artikel zur griechischen...

In the last years access to research data has made a lot of progress in EU countries. Nevertheless transnational access to confidential microdata - although there are some developments like "Data without Boundaries" - is still complicated and needs improvement. The first part of the paper...

Die Volksrepublik (VR) China möchte bezüglich der Elektromobilität weltweit eine führende Rolle einnehmen. Die Reduzierung der massiven Umweltverschmutzung in den Ballungsräumen ist nur ein Nebeneffekt dieses politischen Zieles der chinesischen Führung. Vielmehr strebt die VR China an,...

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...

High-tech, German companies are facing a curious problem: their products are reportedly "too good" for the expanding global markets. So in a way they get "penalised" for offering a superlative quality. At a second glance, though, this doesn't seem surprising. For, succeeding in the emerging...

Im international angelegten IAB-Forschungsprojekt ReLOC - Research on Locational and Organisational Change - werden die Auswirkungen der Direktinvestitionen deutscher Unternehmen in Tschechien auf die Arbeitsmärkte in beiden Ländern untersucht. Analysiert werden u. a. die Effekte der...

What determines whether or not multinational firms transplant their mode of organisation to other countries? We embed the theory of knowledge hierarchies in an industry equilibrium model of monopolistic competition to examine how the economic environment may affect the decision of a...

Economic integration typically goes along with a disintegration of production through outsourcing and offshoring. The consequences of foreign direct investments (FDI) especially for the labour market are an issue of ongoing debate. The countries of origin fear job losses. However, a range of...

Pricing-to-market (PTM) evidence in German sugar confectionery exports is examined, combining the original fixed-effects model of Knetter (1989) and an errorcorrection specification (ECM) at three frequency levels, to assess how neglecting time-series properties and the choice of frequency...

What determines whether or not multinational firms transplant their mode of organisation to other countries? We embed the theory of knowledge hierarchies in an industry equilibrium model of monopolistic competition to examine how the economic environment may affect the decision of a...

Im international angelegten IAB-Forschungsprojekt ReLOC - Research on Locational and Organisational Change - werden die Auswirkungen der Direktinvestitionen deutscher Unternehmen in Tschechien auf die Arbeitsmärkte in beiden Ländern untersucht. Analysiert werden u. a. die Effekte der...