Recent research on productivity spillovers from affiliates of multinational corporations in developing and emerging … transmitting productivity spillovers. This finding has important policy implications, given that host economy governments often … dissemination, and the materialization of productivity spillovers among domestic firms. These findings are used to identify the main …

-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. …