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11-283: The decisions of foreign investors on technical cooperation versus equity engagements and on the degree of ownership in FDI projects are likely to depend on their relative bargaining position vis-à-vis the host country. India provides an interesting case for analyzing the interplay between country-of origin-characteristics and host-country-characteristics and their respective effects on ownership decisions since opening up its economy to FDI in the early 1990s. We perform negative binominal regressions by making use of a unique dataset on about 24,500 technical cooperation and FDI projects by investors from 45 countries of origin over the 1991- 2004 period. We find that relative market size, relative financial market development, relative risk, relative endowment of human capital and previous international experience significantly affect the type of engagement by foreign investors in post-reform India

Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp and Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati

11-282: Keynes’s Aggregate Supply Function: everything you always wanted to know about Z

Jochen Hartwig

11-281: Are GDP Revisions Predictable? Evidence for Switzerland

Boriss Siliverstovs

11-280: Has the EMU Reduced Wage Growth and Unemployment? Testing a Model of Trade Union Behaviour

Heiner Mikosch and Jan-Egbert Sturm

11-279: Explaining IMF Lending Decisions after the Cold War

Christoph Moser and Jan-Egbert Sturm

11-278: The Dynamics of Labor Productivity in Swiss Universities

Thomas Bolli and Mehdi Farsi

11-277: Firm Characteristics and the Cyclicality of R&D Investments

Spyros Arvanitis and Martin Woerter

11-276: External End Users and Firm Innovation Performance

Spyros Arvanitis, Barbara Fuchs and Martin Woerter

11-275: Competition and R&D Cooperation with Universities and Competitors

Thomas Bolli and Martin Woerter

11-274: Spatio-Temporal Dynamics in Swiss Regional Unemployment

Rolf Schenker and Martin Straub

11-273: Inflation Perceptions and Expectations in Sweden - Are Media Reports the ‘Missing Link’?

Lena Dräger

11-272: The Global Production Frontier of Universities

Thomas Bolli

11-271: Inventory investment and production in Europe: Is there a pattern?

Yngve Abrahamsen and Jochen Hartwig

11-270: Can a Standardized Aptitude Test Predict Training Success of Apprentices? Evidence from a Case Study in Switzerland

Michael Siegenthaler

10-269: The Information Content of Capacity Utilization Rates for Output Gap Estimates

Michael Graff and Jan-Egbert Sturm

10-268: And Action: TV Sentiment and the US Consumer

Matthias Uhl

10-267: From Rags to Riches: How Robust is the Influence of Culture on Entrepreneurial Activity?

Christian Busch and Andrea Lassmann

10-266: Insights into the Determinants of Innovation of Energy Efficiency

Marius Christian Ley

10-265: What Determines the Innovation Capability of Firm Founders?

Spyros Arvanitis and Tobias Stucki

10-264: Testing the growth effects of structural change

Jochen Hartwig

10-263: Explaining US Consumer Behavoir and Expectations with News Sentiment

Matthias Uhl

10-262: Does membership on the UN Security Council influence IMF conditionality?

Axel Dreher, Jan-Egbert Sturm and James Raymond Vreeland

10-261: Measuring Regional Inequality by Internet Car Price Advertisements: Evidence for Germany

Konstantin Arkadievich Kholodilin and Boriss Siliverstovs

10-260: Why don't people pay attention? Endogenous Sticky Information in a DSGE Model

Lena Dräger

10-259: Innovation, Competition and Incentives for R&D

Martin Woerter, Christian Rammer and Spyros Arvanitis

10-258: How Do Different Motives for R&D Investment in Foreign Locations Affect Domestic Firm Performance? An Analysis Based on Swiss Panel Micro Data

Spyros Arvanitis and Heinz Hollenstein

10-257: Factors Determining the Adoption of Energy-saving Technologies in Swiss Firms – An Analysis based on Micro Data

Spyros Arvanitis and Marius Christian Ley

10-256: Do Google Searches Help in Nowcasting Private Consumption? A Real-Time Evidence for the US

Konstantin Arkadievich Kholodilin, Maximilian Podstawski and Boriss Siliverstovs

10-255: Are ‘New’ Donors Different? Comparing the Allocation of Bilateral Aid between Non-DAC and DAC Donor Countries

Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp and Rainer Thiele

10-254: The Euro Cash Changeover, Inflation Perceptions and the Media

Michael Josef Lamla and Sarah Marit Lein

10-253: Discretionary Fiscal Policy: The Case of Switzerland

Andres Frick, Michael Graff, Jochen Hartwig and Boriss Siliverstovs

10-252: Do coup leaders matter? Leadership change and economic growth in politically unstable countries

Richard Jong-A-Pin and Shu Yu

10-251: Assessing the Real-Time Informational Content of Macroeconomic Data Releases for Now-/Forecasting GDP: Evidence for Switzerland

Boriss Siliverstovs and Konstantin Arkadievich Kholodilin

10-250: ‘Baumol’s diseases’: the case of Switzerland

Jochen Hartwig

10-249: Assessing Predictive Content of the KOF Barometer in Real Time

Boriss Siliverstovs

10-248: Does the Law of One Price Hold in a High-Inflation Environment? A Tale of Two Cities in Turkey

Sule Akkoyunlu and Boriss Siliverstovs

10-247: Aid Allocation by German NGOs: Does the Degree of Public Refinancing Matter?

Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp, Susann Thiel and Rainer Thiele

10-246: Are Turkish migrants altruistic? Evidence from the macro data

Sule Akkoyunlu

09-245: On the relation between income inequality and happiness: Do fairness perceptions matter?

Christian Bjørnskov, Axel Dreher, Justina A. V. Fischer and Jan Schnellenbach

09-244: From Knowledge to Added Value: A Comparative, Panel-data Analysis of the Innovation Value Chain in Irish and Swiss Manufacturing Firms

Stephen Roper and Spyros Arvanitis

09-243: D and Z in ROPE – Will the Real Keynes Please Stand Up?

Jochen Hartwig

09-242: Do Competitively Acquired Funds Induce Public Research Institutions to Behave Efficiently?

Thomas Bolli and Frank Somogyi

09-241: How Long Do External Capital Constraints Matter?

Tobias Stucki

09-240: Tax Competition and Income Sorting: Evidence from the Zurich Metropolitan Area

Christoph A. Schaltegger, Frank Somogyi and Jan-Egbert Sturm

09-239: Capacity Utilisation, Constraints and Price Adjustments under the Microscope

Sarah Marit Lein and Eva Köberl

09-238: Globalization and Protection of Employment

Justina A. V. Fischer and Frank Somogyi

09-237: Evaluating German Business Cycle Forecasts Under an Asymmetric Loss Function

Jörg Döpke, Ulrich Fritsche and Boriss Siliverstovs

09-236: Does central bank communication really lead to better forecasts of policy decisions? New evidence based on a Taylor rule model for the ECB

Jan-Egbert Sturm and Jakob de Haan

09-235: The Persistence of Inflation in Switzerland: Evidence from Disaggregate Data

Simone Elmer and Thomas Maag

09-234: Employee Education, Information and Communication Technology, Workplace Organization and Trade: A Comparative Analysis of Greek and Swiss Enterprises

Spyros Arvanitis and Euripidis N. Loukis