Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing … plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within … the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …

The flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased dramatically in the last two decades. However, the … distribution of FDI is highly unequal and the competition among countries to attract foreign investors is fierce. This report …. -- Financial market ; foreign direct investment ; FDI ; government policy ; Kurdistan ; KRG …

We analyze an oligopolistic market where a domestic and a foreign firm are engaged in a takeover battle for a domestic … of government. With an unbiased competition agency we find that the foreign takeover is more likely to occur the higher … foreign attempts to acquire domestic firms. …

This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using … 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 …

The stylized literature on foreign direct investment suggests that developing countries should invest in the human … capital of their labour force in order to attract foreign direct investment. However, if educational quality in developing …

We establish the existence of strong media slant against foreign owners. Using a unique data set from nation …-wide distributed quality newspapers in Germany, we find that a foreign firm that downsizes in Germany receives almost twice as much … negative way about downsizing foreign than domestic firms. The slant is present in all quality newspapers, but it increases …