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Foreign Ownership and Firm Performance : Emerging-Market Acquisitions in the United States
Chari, Anusha; Chen, Wenjie; Dominguez, Kathryn M.E - 2021
This paper examines the recent upsurge in foreign acquisitions of U.S. firms, specifically focusing on acquisitions made by firms located in emerging markets. Neoclassical theory predicts that, on net, capital should flow from countries that are capital-abundant to countries that are...
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Fire-Sale FDI or Business as Usual?
Alquist, Ron - 2018
Using a new data set, we examine the characteristics and dynamics of cross-border mergers and acquisitions during emerging-market financial crises, that is, so-called "fire-sale FDI". Our findings shed fresh light on whether the transactions undertaken during crisis periods differ in fundamental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938544
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Heterogeneous Frictional Costs Across Industries in Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2016
While there has been significant research to explore the determinants (and frictions) of foreign direct investment (FDI), past literature primarily focuses on country-wide FDI patterns with little examination of sectoral heterogeneity in FDI. Anecdotally, there is substantial sectoral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984746
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Swedish Firms Acquired by Foreigners : A Comparison of Before and after Takeover
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2004
relatively low in value added per employee at the time of takeover and before, a characteristic we take to indicate relatively …-term recoveries after takeover from the misfortunes of the takeover year and a return to higher growth rates of employment and output … year or two after takeover but seem to have increased their profitability or efficiency relative to their industries. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012786214
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Cross-Border Acquisitions and Target Firms' Performance : Evidence from Japanese Firm-Level Data
Fukao, Kyoji - 2010
Using Japanese firm-level data for the period from 1994-2002, this paper examines whether a firm is chosen as an acquisition target based on its productivity level, profitability and other characteristics and whether the performance of Japanese firms that were acquired by foreign firms improves...
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Cross-Border Acquisitions and Labor Regulations
Levine, Ross - 2015
Do labor regulations influence the reaction of stock markets and firm profitability to cross-border acquisitions? We discover that acquiring firms enjoy smaller abnormal stock returns and profits when targets are in countries with stronger labor protection regulations, i.e., in countries where...
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An Assignment Theory of Foreign Direct Investment
Nocke, Volker; Yeaple, Stephen R. - 2021
We develop an assignment theory to analyze the volume and composition of foreign direct investment (FDI). Firms conduct FDI by either engaging in greenfield investment or in cross-border acquisitions. Cross-border acquisitions involve firms trading heterogeneous corporate assets to exploit...
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Foreign Ownership and Employment Growth in Indonesian Manufacturing
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2010
. Foreign takeover of a domestically-owned plant, on average, brings a large immediate expansion of employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144499
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Financial Constraints, Institutions, and Foreign Ownership
Alquist, Ron - 2018
This paper examines how external finance dependence, financial development, and institutions influence brownfield foreign direct investment (FDI). We develop a model of cross-border acquisitions in which the foreign acquirer's choice of ownership structure reflects a trade-off between easing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929015
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Volatility, Employment and the Patterns of FDI in Emerging Markets
Aizenman, Joshua - 2021
The purpose of this paper is to explore the implications of the deepening presence of multinationals in emerging markets on the cost of macroeconomic volatility there. We find that macroeconomic volatility has a potentially large impact on employment and investment decisions of multinationals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243418