recently. In particular, takeovers by foreign firms raise suspicions of technology theft and job cuts at the newly acquired … of positive effects emerge. With respect to takeovers of German companies by foreign investors, the productivity and … international, we find positive productivity and sales effects for relatively small companies investing abroad, and this …

This paper examines the extent to which aggregate-level de-routinization can be attributed to firm-level technology … technologies. Our results suggest that an acceleration of technology adoption would be associated with faster de-routinization and …

suggest that developing countries grow faster when they are globally competitive in low-technology manufacturing and natural …

. In contrast, we do not find evidence that improved production processes and technology upgrading cause the positive …