role of technology in mergers and acquisitions (M&As) at the firm level. Based on a newly created data set that combines … financial information and patent data for public limited companies in Europe as well as country level variables, we apply a … structural model to investigate technology-related motivations behind merger formation. Distinguishing between cross-border and …

recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the … development in a number area where similar trends are observed. The areas studied include globalization, in-sourcing and …

We examine the effects of globalization on the size and composition of tax revenues, worker-specific tax burdens, and … increasing mobility of firms and high-income workers, globalization led governments in OECD countries to seek tax revenues from …-2007, they experienced a globalization-induced rise in their personal income tax rate of around 1.5, whereas the top 1% of …

The activities of multinational enterprises drive the economic globalization process to a very large degree. This paper … lists some facts about their dominant role in all channels of globalization. Therefore, the importance of multinational … transfer of knowledge and technology and to foreign trade. It is argued that economic theory must account for multinationals …

value of patents and their potential to block competitors in technology markets. Our empirical results for European firm … firms with valuable patents. However, patents with a potential to block technology competitors seem to be only of interest … to corporate investors, especially if these are closely related to the patent portfolio of the acquirer. …

's patents, especially if blocking patents are in technology fields related to the acquiring firm's patent portfolio. Our results … acquisitions. On the one hand, patents are used as a building instrument for the acquirer's technology portfolio. On the other hand …-based view of the firm, we analyze the importance of these two faces of technology acquisition for the valuation of a target firm …

blocking patents are in technology fields related to the acquiring firm's patent portfolio. Our results have implications for … acquisitions. On the one hand, patents are used as a building instrument for the acquirer's technology portfolio. On the other hand …-based view of the firm, we analyze the importance of these two faces of technology acquisition for the valuation of a target firm …