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Production efficiency of firms with mergers and acquisitions in India

Saraswathy, Beena - 2015

mergers and acquisitions especially after the economic reforms of 1990s. Specifically, we have examined the technical … efficiency of the firms involved in mergers and acquisitions, separately for cross-border and domestic deals. …

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Productivity spillovers from foreign MNEs on domestic manufacturing firms: is co-location always a plus?

Mariotti, Sergio; Mutinelli, Marco; Nicolini, Marcella; … - 2011

The paper analyses productivity spillovers from foreign MNEs on domestic manufacturing firms. Using a database on foreign MNEs in Italy, our results reveal that local firms do benefit from the presence of foreign MNEs, and the effect is higher when local and foreign firms in manufacturing...

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Learning or leaning : persistent and transitory spillovers from FDI

Davies, Ronald B.; Lamla, Michael; Schiffbauer, Marc - 2016

Using firm-level data for Jordan, we estimate the extent to which growth spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) to local firms stem from persistent learning externalities (i.e., they endure even after foreign investment leaves as knowledge has been transferred to local firms) or from...

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Multiproduct multinationals and the quality of innovation

Bakhtiari, Sasan; Minniti, Antonio; Naghavi, Alireza - 2013

This research sheds light on the role of product scope on the innovation activity of multinational multi-product firms. We use patent citation data to break down innovation into two types by measuring the degree to which innovation performed by firms is fundamental and the extent to which the...

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Joint foreign ownership and global value chains effects on productivity : a comparison of firms from Poland and Germany

Szymczak, Sabina; Parteka, Aleksandra; … - 2022 - This version: May 2022

The study confronts the joint effects of foreign ownership and its involvement in global value chains (GVC) on the productivity performance of firms from a catching-up country (Poland) and a leader economy (Germany). Domestic owned firms are less productive than foreign ones, which is...

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The effects of startup acquisitions on innovation and economic growth

Fons-Rosen, Christian; Roldan-Blanco, Pau; Schmitz, Tom - 2022 - This version: December 9, 2022

Innovative startups are frequently acquired by large incumbent firms. On the one hand, these acquisitions provide an … startups just to "kill" their ideas, and acquisitions can erode incumbents' own innovation incentives. Our paper aims to assess … the net effect of these forces. To do so, we build an endogenous growth model with heterogeneous firms and acquisitions …

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