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

via an increase in their productivity. The growing competitive pressure in the upstream sector, induced by global retail … chains, drives least productive firms out of the market and the average productivity of the sector increases. In addition …, retail sector FDI generates productivity gains at the firm level: local suppliers of multinational retailers benefit from the …

-border acquisition, show different productivity levels as compared to those firms that have not been acquired. Our identification … firms' balance sheet for the years 2008-2018. We find that cross-border acquisitions decrease the productivity of the … targeted by acquirers originating in emerging market economies also decrease productivity of high-tech target firms. …

The paper investigates the impact that the multinational scope of firms' activities can have on their productivity …, we propose an econometric model based on an R&D and a productivity equation, which are both allowed to depend on … multinationality. With this model we can disentangle the direct and indirect effects of multinationality on productivity appropriately …