Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/57152 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series in Economics No. 221
Publisher: 
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Lüneburg
Abstract: 
This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using unique tailor-made new representative data that merge information from surveys performed by the Statistical Offices, from administrative data collected by the Tax Authorities and from a commercial data provider. It contributes to the literature by providing the first evidence on the role of foreign ownership for firm survival in Germany, one of the most important destination countries for foreign direct investments. Our micro-econometric analysis reveals a ceteris paribus higher risk of exit for foreign owned firms in West Germany but not in East Germany.
Subjects: 
foreign ownership
firm survival
Germany
JEL: 
F23
L60
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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