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Big tech acquisitions and innovation : an empirical assessment

Barsy, Laureen de; Gautier, Axel - 2024

this analysis, we use patent citations as a proxy for the innovation effort by the acquirer. Our main result is to show … that acquisition increases the innovation effort of the acquirer but only temporarily. After 1.5 year, there is no longer a … significant impact of the acquisition on the acquirer’s innovation effort. This decline is relatively larger when the acquired …

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The dynamics of automation adoption : firm-level heterogeneity and aggregate employment effects

Bisio, Laura; Cuzzola, Angelo; Grazzi, Marco; … - 2023

We investigate the impact of investment in automation-related goods on adopting and non-adopting firms in the Italian … of Italian importing firms and estimate the effects on adopters' outcomes within a difference-indifferences design … exploiting import lumpiness in product categories linked to automation and AI technologies. We find a positive average adoption …

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Flexible automation : a comparison of Dutch and Swedish firms particularly as to one machine penetrations

Boon, Gerard K. - 1984

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Merger negotiations and ex-post regret

Gärtner, Dennis (contributor); … - 2007

-burning in the case of false reports. -- Mergers ; Mechanism ; design ; Asymmetric ; information ; Interdependent ; valuations …

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Dynamic entry and exit linkages in the Brazilian manufacturing industry : an econometric investigation

Resende, Marcelo; Ribeiro, Eduardo Pontual; Zeidan, … - 2013

The paper investigates dynamic linkages between entry and exit rates in Brazilian manufacturing in the context of 231 (4-digits) industries during the 1996-2005 period. The empirical analysis focuses on the estimation of a dynamic panel data for entry and exit rates and controls for the business...

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Do mergers among multimarket firms create value?

Linde, Sebastian; Siebert, Ralph - 2016

information on mergers and firm-level multimarket production and innovation within the semiconductor industry. Using the pairwise …

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A treatment effect method for merger analysis with an application to parking prices in Paris

Choné, Philippe; Linnemer, Laurent - 2010

Most retrospective merger studies resort to the treatment effect approach, comparing the price dynamics in a treatment group and in a control group. We propose a systematic method to construct the groups, which applies to any industry with spatial competition. The method is consistent with the...

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Merge or fail? : The determinants of mergers and bankruptcies in Switzerland, 1995 - 2000

Bühler, Stefan (contributor); Kaiser, Christian (contributor) - 2005

This paper examines the determinants of mergers and bankruptcies, using firm level data from the Swiss Business Census and the Dun & Bradstreet exit database for Switzerland (1995-2000). Employing duration analysis, we find considerable differences in the determinants of mergers and...

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Productivity, price- and wage-markups : an empirical analysis of the Dutch manufacturing industry

Amoroso, Sara; Melenberg, Bertrand; Plasmans, Joseph E. J. - 2015

This paper examines the interaction between productivity growth, firms’ monopolistic market power, and workers’ wage bargaining power. Our study contributes to several strands of literatures. First, we examine a monopolistic framework which accounts for wage bargaining. In addition to the...

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Concentration and competition : evidence from Europe and implications for policy

Koltay, Gábor; Lorincz, Szabolcs; Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2022

The paper provides new evidence on proxy indicators of market power for major European countries. The data shows moderately increasing average industry concentration over the last two decades, a considerably increasing proportion of high concentration industries, and an overall tendency towards...

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