TY - UNPB

T1 - Foreign Ownership and Firm Survival: First evidence for enterprises in Germany

AU - Wagner, Joachim

AU - Weche Gelübcke, John Philipp

PY - 2011/12

Y1 - 2011/12

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Economics

KW - Foreign ownership

KW - firm survival

KW - Germany

M3 - Working papers

T3 - Working Paper Series in Economics

BT - Foreign Ownership and Firm Survival: First evidence for enterprises in Germany

PB - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg

CY - Lüneburg

ER -