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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

a reduced reliance on foreign capital is associated with higher growth... …

This paper investigates the effects of domestic privatisation or foreign acquisition of Chinese State Owned Enterprises … (SOEs) on employment growth, using firm level data for China and a combination of propensity score matching and difference … an ownership change. By contrast, there is some evidence that foreign acquisitions show higher employment growth in the …