firms located in the UK. Our study differs from many studies of foreign owned plants in three ways. Firstly, using a newly … available dataset we can identify not only foreign but also domestic MNEs. We find that UK MNEs are less productive than US … owned plants, but as productive as non US foreign owned plants. Secondly, having a panel dataset we distinguish between …

This paper investigates whether the acquisition of a domestic establishment by a foreign owner has any effects on the … variables. Estimating a standard hazard model yields the result that foreign takeover reduces the liftetime of the acquired …