We analyze linked databases on all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans, on all SBA lenders, and on all U … lenders. The estimation results imply an increase of 3-4 jobs for each million dollars of loans, suggesting that credit …-county versus non-SBA county-industry control firms. Finally, for loans issued over the 1992-2007 period, we estimate total job …

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 …