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Foreign ownership and employment growth in Indonesian manufacturing

Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Sun, Jing - 2010

. Foreign takeover of a domestically-owned plant, on average, brings a large immediate expansion of employment. …

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The Effect of Takeover Activity on Corporate Research and Development

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 1987

rather than more R&D capital than the industry as a whole, it seems unlikely that the recent increase in takeover activity …

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Swedish Firms Acquired by Foreigners : A Comparison of Before and After Takeover

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1982

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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Foreign Takeovers of Swedish Firms

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1981

ion of firms for takeover is based on f inn characteristics, not industry characteristics. After takeover by foreigners …, by the crude measurements we have been able to apply so far, do not seem to be affected in any consistent way by takeover …

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Foreign Ownership and Firm Performance : Emerging-Market Acquisitions in the United States

Chari, Anusha - 2009

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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Cross-Border Acquisitions and Target Firms' Performance : Evidence From Japanese Firm-Level Data

Fukao, Kyoji - 2006

Moreover, we find that there is no positive impact on target firms' profitability in the case of both within-group in-in acquisitions and in-in acquisitions by domestic outsiders. In fact, in the manufacturing sector, the return on assets even deteriorated one year and two years after...

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An Assignment Theory of Foreign Direct Investment

Nocke, Volker - 2004

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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Both Sides of Corporate Diversification : The Value Impacts of Geographic and Industrial Diversification

Bodnar, Gordon M. - 1997

with international operations is 2.2% higher than comparable domestic single activity firms, while the average value of a …

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Taxes and the Form of Ownership of Foreign Corporate Equity

Gordon, Roger H. - 1992

Investors can achieve international diversification in their portfolios not only through purchasing foreign equity … alternative methods of international diversification, using data on investment in the U.S. by investors from each of ten other … distortions affecting the form of international capital flows …

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Extending Industry Specialization through Cross-Border Acquisitions

Frésard, Laurent - 2016

We investigate the role of industry specialization in horizontal cross-border mergers and acquisitions. We find that acquirers from more specialized industries in a country are more likely to buy foreign targets in countries that are less specialized in these same industries. The role of...

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