Quantifying Productivity Gains from Foreign Investment / Christian Fons-Rosen, Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Bent E. Sørensen, Carolina Villegas-Sanchez, Vadym Volosovych.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fons-Rosen, Christian.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Kalemli-Özcan, Ṣebnem.

Sørensen, Bent E.

Villegas-Sanchez, Carolina.

Volosovych, Vadym.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w18920.

NBER working paper series no. w18920

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2013.

Summary:

We revisit the relationship between foreign investment and productivity of acquired firms. First, we construct a panel firm-level dataset for eight advanced European countries covering domestic and foreign acquisitions together with detailed balance sheet information for the years 1999{2012. Second, we address the challenge of identifying a causal relation. To that end, we compare foreign to domestic acquisitions in addition to accounting for the impact of majority versus minority acquisitions after controlling for country and sector trends. The productivity of foreign acquired affiliates increases modestly after four years, but only when majority stakes are acquired by foreigners. Our results are driven by foreign acquisitions and not by foreign divestment.

Notes:

Print version record

March 2013.