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Employment Growth Following Takeovers
Geurts, Karen - 2017
We use a comprehensive sample of takeovers in Belgium to show that they are remarkably common and an important part of many firms' growth process. They affect both small and large firms and, over a five-year period, 17 percent of private employment. We estimate the impact of takeovers on...
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Cross-border mergers and acquisitions of multinational firms : new firm-level evidence
Arndt, Christian; Mattes, Anselm - 2010
cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) on multinational firms are rather unclear and much disputed. We empirically …
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Cross-border M&As and innovative activity of acquiring and target firms
Stiebale, Joel - 2014
This paper analyzes the effects of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on the innovation of European firms …
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Foreign direct investment and trade in agro-food global value chains
Punthakey, Jibran J. - 2020
the agriculture and food sectors, using a novel database of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) covering the period 1997 …
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The impact of cross-border mergers and acquisitions on the acquirers' R&D - firm level evidence
Stiebale, Joel - 2013
This paper provides empirical evidence on the relationship between cross-border acquisitions and innovation activities … of domestic expenditures for research and development. Controlling for endogeneity of foreign acquisitions by estimating … effects on tangible investment spending and by a comparison of the effects of cross-border acquisitions to those of greenfield …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011609709
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Foreign ownership and skillbiased technological change
Koch, Michael; Smolka, Marcel - 2018
We conduct an empirical investigation into the effects of foreign ownership on worker skills using firm-level data from Spain. To control for endogeneity bias due to selection into foreign ownership, we combine a difference-in-differences approach with a propensity score weighting estimator. Our...
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Causes and consequences of merger waves
Kleinert, Jörn; Klodt, Henning - 2002
This paper presents some ideas about determinants of merger waves and some evidence on their effect on profitability and employment. A brief survey of previous merger waves and an analysis of the recent one give support to the hypothesis that sectoral shocks are at the root of merger waves....
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Corporate Acquisitions and Firm-Level Uncertainty : Domestic versus Cross-Border Deals
Bai, Ye - 2020
This paper studies the impact of corporate acquisitions - both domestic and cross-border - on the uncertainty faced by … difference-in-differences to control for the endogenous selection of firms into buying other companies. We find that acquisitions … determined by the geographic scope of the acquisitions firms undertake. We find that the impact of acquisitions on firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841927
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Institutional Distance Factors Influencing on Firm Performance : A Hypothetical Framework from Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions
Hasan, Md - 2017
Cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CBMAs) have long been used as an important strategy for firms' international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947032
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Post-acquisition operating performance of acquiring firms following cross-border mergers and acquisitions
Khan, Aamir; Kalisz, David - In: Economies : open access journal 12 (2024) 7, pp. 1-14
This study investigates the firms' performance following cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) from 2000 to 2022 …
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