Business cycles and FDI: evidence from German sectoral data

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Globalization has effected business cycle developments in OECD countries and has increased activities of firms across national borders. This paper analyzes whether these two developments are linked. We use a new firm-level dataset on the foreign activities of German firms to test whether foreign activities are affected by business cycle developments. We aggregate the data by the sector of the reporting firm, the sector of the foreign affiliate, and the host country. Data are annual and cover the period 1989-2002. We find that German outward FDI increases in response to positive cyclical developments abroad and in response to a real depreciation of the domestic currency.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Discussion Paper Series 1 ; No. 2005,09

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Multinational Firms; International Business
• Subject: Business cycles ; multinational activity ; FDI ; Direktinvestition ; Multinationales Unternehmen ; Deutsch ; Konjunktur ; Abwertung ; Kaufkraftparität ; Euro ; Schätzung ; Welt ; Deutschland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Buch, Claudia M. ; Lipponer, Alexander
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Deutsche Bundesbank
• (where): Frankfurt a. M.
• (when): 2005

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19518
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