.S. comparative advantage to takeovers is also negative, but never significant. High U.S. stock prices, industry profitability, and … industry growth discourage takeovers. High U.S interest rates and high investing country growth and currency values encourage …

these factors were largely associated with the industry the firm was in but size, R&D, and profitability were … manufacturing abroad in a small number of corn-panies is largely a reflection of the concentration within the United States. The … in industries other than machinery R&D - intensive firms were more inclined than others to license technology, while in …

In this paper, we extend the growth model to include firm-specific technology capital and use it to assess the gains … from opening to foreign direct investment. A firm's technology capital is its unique know-how from investing in research … and development, brands, and organization capital. What distinguishes technology capital from other forms of capital is …

, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an important …

This paper uses a rich panel dataset of Spanish manufacturing firms (1990-2006) and a propensity score reweighting …

We examine the differential impact of portfolio debt, portfolio equity, and FDI inflows on 37 manufacturing industries … cross-sectional regressions of manufacturing industries' growth rates covering 17 years. Net portfolio debt inflows are … manufacturing sector. For instance, the inflow surge during the financial liberalization period, 1993-1994, is associated with a …

way to disentangle some of these influences might be to disaggregate by country, industry, and even better, by firm … with cross-sections by country and industry and, in some eases, by firm …

Wages in domestically- owned Indonesian manufacturing plants taken over by foreign firms increased sharply between the …