-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. …

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 …

argued to provide further economic benefits through spillover effects that potentially increase the productivity performance … conditioning the effects of spillovers from multinationals on their productivity. Overall, we find limited evidence or a negative … link between the presence of foreign-owned firms and the productivity of domestic firms in the same industry or the same …

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 …

Productivity in Russia has fallen steadily over the past 15 years. This paper explores micro-level data to understand … the contribution of individual firms to aggregate productivity. Overall, firm-level data corroborate the decline in … aggregate productivity and a widening productivity gap against several European countries. They also show that the gap between …

in the same region is associated with increasing productivity of local firms, especially in form of cross …