matched employeremployee data. We observe above average separations of workers around domestic acquisitions. This is … associated with a decline in unobserved worker quality in the plant. Foreign acquisitions are not associated with above average …

drain of R&D activity in Swedish MNEs. Rather, this paper finds robust evidence that foreign acquisitions lead to increasing …

expatriate CEOs. By examining foreign acquisitions where the new owner replaces the incumbent CEO with an expatriate or a local …

acquisitions by MNEs from technologically leading countries and those behind the technological frontier. We show that both acquire … similarly R&D intensive domestic firms, but there are important differences post-acquisition. Acquisitions from technologically … sourcing FDI, acquisitions from non-leading countries increase internal R&D efforts. -- MNE ; knowledge production function …