acquisition target based on its productivity level, profitability and other characteristics and whether the performance of … Japanese firms that were acquired by foreign firms improves after the acquisition. In our previous study for the Japanese …) and profit rates than Mamp;As by domestic firms. However, it may argued that firms acquired by foreign firms showed better …

This study focuses on ex ante performance of domestic and foreign takeover targets in Germany, one of the most … separately. The results showed a diametrically opposing impact of productivity and profitability on the takeover likelihood. This … well as binary response model estimations of takeover probabilities were performed for the manufacturing and service sector …

of utmost topicality. -- post-acquisition performance ; foreign takeover ; manufacturing ; treatment analysis ; Germany …This study provides the first comparative evidence of foreign and domestic acquisitions in Germany. A propensity score … matching approach combined with a difference-in-difference estimator were performed separately for foreign and domestic …