from globalisation on firms’ R&D productivity, especially in the US, while a negative impact for industrial diversification … productivity performance of large European R&D Multinational Enterprises (MNEs). Based on the worldwide subsidiaries of these firms …, we measure the performance of the firms according to their level of industrial diversification and globalisation that we …

This paper examines the impact of investment in knowledge-based capital on firm productivity. The analysis is based on … and above other factors, an increase in investment in knowledge-based capital of 10 per cent increases firm productivity … by 2 per cent. The research results indicate that productivity gains linked to investment in KBC are larger for Irish …

This paper examines the causal relationship between foreign mergers and acquisitions and firm productivity in the UK … positive aggregate effects on labor productivity due to capital deepening but not due to changes in TFP. -- Cross …-border mergers and acquisitions ; Productivity ; Firm heterogeneity …

This paper is unique in testing the importance of the foreign ownership definition when estimating productivity … companies. In addition, it moves beyond the standard framework by not only analyzing aggregate productivity spillovers, but also … negative productivity spillovers. Finally, the estimations show that the negative spillovers largely stem from foreign firms (i …

generate spillovers. To account for the difficulty of productivity measurement in services, turnover-based, value …-added-based and input-based productivity measures are employed. I find weak evidence of positive spillovers to domestic non … competition is associated with higher productivity of the domestic firms in the transport, storage and communication and the …