Germany is one of the most important target countries for Chinese investors and ranks tenth among all countries in terms of Chinese FDI stock abroad. Particularly the transport sector and the technology sector in Germany received a great amount of...

Taiwan and South Korea have so far come through the corona crisis much better than many other economies. The keys to success have included pandemic-experienced and efficiently acting authorities, excellent medical care and research, and the use of...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 117: The authors reveal that on the one hand China alleviates inward FDI with a clear focus on promoting “quality” FDI with potential positive impacts also on local firms without direct investment relationships with...

This article investigates the determinants of the employment of foreign skilled workers by firms operating in Sub-Saharan African countries. We use cross section firm-level data on a large sample of foreign and domestic firms collected through the...

This paper investigates the role of regional credit systems for Chinese regional innovation, using data for the period 2000-2008. Both the effects of credit depth and government intervention are investigated. Results show that regional credit depth...

This paper analyzes the determinants of the location choices made by foreign investors at the district level in India to gauge the relative importance of economic geography factors, local business conditions, institutional conditions, and the...

We assess the location choices of 6,020 foreign investors at the level of Indian districts. Employing conditional logit models, we find that clustering of FDI is driven strongly by herding among investors from both, the same and other countries of...

This paper introduces a mechanism of international technology diffusion via FDI and imports into recursive-dynamic CGE modeling for climate policy analysis. As a novel feature, the mechanism distinguishes spillovers from foreign do domestic capital...

Investors from emerging and developing economies are becoming bigger players in FDI, particularly in developing countries. While some raise concerns that emerging economies might gain control over raw materials, others are hopeful that...

We draw on a recent survey of European companies to differentiate between alternative modes of international outsourcing as possible determinants of market, cost and knowledge-related aspects of the competitiveness of firms. We find that internalized...