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Foreign-Owned Firms

Are They Different?

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  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. Rolf Jungnickel

    1. Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA), Germany

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Rolf Jungnickel
    Pages 1-12

  3. Why Foreign-owned Firms are Different: A Conceptual Framework and Empirical Evidence for Austria

    • Michael Pfaffermayr, Christian Bellak
    Pages 13-57

  4. (Why) do Foreign-owned Firms in Germany Achieve Above-average Productivity?

    • Lutz Bellmann, Rolf Jungnickel
    Pages 58-88

  5. Locating Foreign Affiliates in Germany: The Case of Swedish MNEs

    • Henrik Braconier, Karolina Ekholm
    Pages 89-106

  6. Foreign-Owned Firms and UK Economic Performance

    • Nigel Pain, Florence Hubert
    Pages 107-138

  7. Foreign-owned Firms and the Competitiveness of France as a Host Country: A Focus on Foreign Trade and Innovation Issues

    • Rémi Lallement
    Pages 139-182

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 183-191
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Foreign-owned firms (FoFs) can have significant implications in terms of employment, income and technology for the national economies involved. This book compares the efficiency of domestic and FoFs, and also looks at the performance of FoFs in several different countries. Contributors take a broad variety of research approaches with a focus on the use of firm-specific data from France, Germany, Austria, and Sweden. They conclude that foreign ownership matters but the real difference is not between FoFs and national firms but between multinational and domestic firms.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA), Germany

    Rolf Jungnickel

About the editor

ROLF JUNGNICKEL is Head of the HWWA research group: International Mobility of Firms. He has acted as a consultant to the German government, and has been a member of Team Europe since its inception. His research interests include foreign direct investment and multinational enterprises, foreign trade and industrial and technological policy, and he has published widely on these topics.

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