within the firm. The welfare analysis illustrates that larger countries are better off after the merger. By contrast, smaller … countries may lose, if the pre-merger production cost differential across firms is negligible and/or a post-merger technology … effects of a merger. In this respect, the main result of the paper is that an adjustment of plant location in space can …

firm are engaged in a takeover battle for a domestic competitor. Any merger or acquisition (M&A) must be approved by the … national government whose objective function may include a bias against the foreign takeover. That bias endogenously results … qualitatively different effect. The foreign takeover would then only emerge in an intermediate range of trade costs. Once trade …

non-MNEs, and purely domestic firms before foreign takeover. The results, controlling for possible endogeneity of the … horizontal or vertical. We also find robust positive employment growth effects only for exporters, and only if the takeover is …

This paper investigates the effects of the takeover of a domestic establishment by foreign owners on the domestic …