Determinants of German FDI: New Evidence from Micro-Data

Farid Toubal, Joern Kleinert () and Claudia Buch

No 2003,09, Discussion Paper Series 1: Economic Studies from Deutsche Bundesbank

Abstract: This paper provides new evidence on the foreign direct investment stocks of German firms. We use firm-level data for the years 1990-2000 to describe the regional and sectoral patterns of German FDI through gravity-type equations. We provide evidence on the patterns of FDI by sector, by size of the foreign affiliate, and by the number of affiliates per host country. While market size and geographic distance have a significant impact on FDI stocks, we also find differences in the determinants of FDI between sectors as well as between the size of foreign affiliates and the number of foreign affiliates.

Keywords: distance coefficients; gravity equations; foreign direct investment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F0 F21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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