We investigate the effect of international differences in corporate taxation on the realization of productivity gains … thus mitigate the resulting productivity improvement. Using firm-level data on inputs and outputs of production as well as … of two merging firms reduces the subsequent total factor productivity gain by 4.5%. This effect is less pronounced when …

development as well as productivity and firm performance. Eventually, the survey does not only allow the identification of main …

' effects in the literature, by employment losses from process and organisational innovation and by general productivity …

Inventors often experience a low productivity after their company has been subject to a merger or acquisition (M … capacity for the post-merger patent productivity of the acquired inventors. Based on a sample of 544 inventors employed by … European acquisition targets in the period 2000-2001 it is shown that the post-merger productivity of acquired inventors is …

-segment variation of the estimated effects is mostly driven by firm productivity levels rather than by search frictions or the …