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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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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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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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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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The Price Effects of a Large Merger of Manufacturers : A Case Study of Maytag-Whirlpool

Ashenfelter, Orley - 2011

appliance markets most affected by the merger to markets where concentration changed much less or not at all. We estimate price …

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R&D and the Incentives from Merger and Acquisition Activity

Phillips, Gordon M. - 2014

industry merger and acquisition activity. All of these effects are stronger for smaller firms than for larger firms …

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