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The Effects of Cross-border M&As on the Acquirers' Domestic Performance – Firm-level Evidence
Stiebale, Joel; Trax, Michaela - 2010
labor force in neither of both countries. Further, acquisitions in knowledge-intensive industries lead to improvements in … domestic productivity. Our results display some heterogeneity across industries and types of acquisitions, suggesting a … connection between the motives for international acquisitions and their resulting effects. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269996
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Why foreign-owned firms are different: A conceptual framework and empirical evidence for Austria
Pfaffermayr, Michael; Bellak, Christian - 2000
This study examines performance gaps among foreign-owned and domestically- owned Austrian firms. In line with earlier findings our results suggest that the positive effects of participating in a foreign multinational's network can mainly be found in productivity and profitability. A further...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295597
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The effects of cross-border M&As on the acquirers' domestic performance : firm-level evidence
Stiebale, Joel; Trax, Michaela - 2010
labor force in neither of both countries. Further, acquisitions in knowledge-intensive industries lead to improvements in … domestic productivity. Our results display some heterogeneity across industries and types of acquisitions, suggesting a … connection between the motives for international acquisitions and their resulting effects. -- F23 ; G34 ; L23 ; D24 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003924467
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Productivity and the Internationalization of Firms – Cross-border Acquisitions versus Greenfield Investments
Trax, Michaela - 2011
-border acquisitions and greenfield investments as different modes of FDI using a rich dataset of British firms. While multinational firms …-border acquisitions. Cross-border deals involve the most productive firms in sectors with a high share of intangible assets, but the least …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274446
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Productivity and the internationalization of firms : cross-border acquisitions versus greenfield investments
Trax, Michaela - 2011
-border acquisitions and greenfield investments as different modes of FDI using a rich dataset of British firms. While multinational firms …-border acquisitions. Cross-border deals involve the most productive firms in sectors with a high share of intangible assets, but the least …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009124247
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Outsourcing, foreign ownership and productivity: evidence from UK establishment level data
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2003
This paper presents an empirical analysis of ?outsourcing? using establishment level data for UK manufacturing industries. We analyse an establishment?s decision to outsource and the subsequent effects of outsourcing on the establishment?s productivity. We compare outsourcing in domestic with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265428
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Outsourcing, foreign ownership and productivity : evidence from UK establishment level data
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2003
This paper presents an empirical analysis of "outsourcing" using establishment level data for UK manufacturing industries. We analyse an establishment's decision to outsource and the subsequent effects of outsourcing on the establishment's productivity. We compare outsourcing in domestic with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438842
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Growing like China : firm performance and global production line position
Chor, Davin; Manova, Kalina; Yu, Zhihong - 2020
Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese firms position themselves in global production lines and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270354
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Growing like China : firm performance and global production line position
Chor, Davin; Manova, Kalina; Yu, Zhihong - 2020 - Version of August, 2020
Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese firms position themselves in global production lines and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501399
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Exports and productivity : an empirical analysis of German and Austrian firm-level performance
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
This paper studies the relationship between export activities and firm-level productivity. Unique matching of German and Austrian micro data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that exporters are more productive by around 40 percent compared with non-exporters. Moreover, beside other analysis techniques,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952127