Direktinvestitionen und Standort Deutschland

Thomas Jost

No 1997,02, Discussion Paper Series 1: Economic Studies from Deutsche Bundesbank

Abstract: The unfavourable balance of foreign direct investment plays a major role in the ongoing debate on the quality of Gennany as a business location. High direct investment outflows and low inflows compared with the United Kingdom and France are often seen as a sign of weakness of the Gennan "Standort". The relative attractiveness of different countries for foreign direct investment is usually measured in tenns of the balance of payments data of the host countries. However, owing to still very divergent recording practices across the industrial countries, such comparisons may be misleading. In this paper it is shown that the statistical eITors are minor if investor countries", rather than host countries", data are used to compare the relative attractiveness of different economies for foreign direct investments. Over aperiod of 11 years, foreign balance of payments data show that Gennany has received a considerably higher amount of foreign direct investments than is recorded in the Gennan balance of payments. On the outflow side the different data sources give a more homogeneous picture of a persistently heavy commitment of Gennan companies abroad ...

Date: 1997
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