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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 …
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The Use of Tax Havens in Exemption Regimes
Gumpert, Anna - 2011
This paper analyzes the tax haven investment behavior of multinational firms from a country that exempts foreign income from taxation. High foreign tax rates generally encourage firms to invest in tax havens, though significant costs of reallocating taxable income dampen these incentives. The...
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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...
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World Markets for Mergers and Acquisitions
Erel, Isil - 2009
Despite the fact that one-third of worldwide mergers involve firms from different countries, the vast majority of the academic literature on mergers studies domestic mergers. What little has been written about cross-border mergers has focused on public firms, usually from the United States. Yet,...
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Merger or Acquisition? Introduction to the Handbook of Historical Economics
Bisin, Alberto; Federico, Giovanni - 2023
Handbook as a forceful argument in favor of a merger between the two disciplines rather than the acquisition of one by the … other; a merger which combines, notably, the detailed knowledge of historical sources, the capability of distilling complex …
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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 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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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 …
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