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In R&D intensive industries, governments promote greenfield foreign investments, while being sceptical towards foreign acquisitions of domestic high-quality firms.We develop a theoretical model that shows that foreign acquisitions are conducive to high-quality targets because of strategic effects on the sales price. However, foreign firms 'cherry pick' high-quality targets to expand R&D rather than to downsize. Otherwise, rivals expand R&D, making the acquisition unprofitable. Thus, our model predicts that acquired affiliates invest more in R&D than greenfield affiliates. Using affiliate data, we find evidence that acquired affiliates have a higher level of sequential R&D intensity than greenfield affiliates. JEL classification: F23, L10Est-ce que les pays devraient bloquer la prise de contrôle par des intérêtsétrangers de champions nationaux en R&D et encourager l'investissement direct de l'étranger dans les jeunes pousses? Dans les industriesà forte intensité de R&D, les gouvernements encouragent les investissementsétrangers dans les jeunes pousses, tout enétant sceptiques quant aux acquisitionsétrangères de firmes domestiques de haute qualité. On développe un modèle théorique qui montre que les acquisitions par l'étranger ciblent les firmes de haute qualité a cause des effets stratégiques sur la valeur de l'entreprise. Les entreprisesétrangères choisissent des cibles de haute qualité pour accroître leur R&D non pas pour le diminuer. Autrement leurs rivaux vont accroître leur R&D et rendre l'acquisition non-profitable. Donc, le modèle prédit que les succursales acquises vont investir davantage dans le R&D We are very grateful to Mattias Ganslandt, Thierry Mayer, and two anonymous referees for their comments and suggestions and to Fredrik Hesseborn and Martin Olsson for their excellent research assistance. We also thank seminar participants at the que les jeunes pousses. A l'aide de données sur les succursales, on montre que les succursales acquises ont un plus haut niveau d'intensité en R&D dans l'après que les jeunes pousses acquises.
Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AbstractWe develop a two-country general equilibrium model where firms make separate choices about the location of R&D and high-tech production. There are two agglomeration forces: R&D spillovers and backward linkages associated with high-tech production. The latter tends to attract production to the larger economy. We show that, for relatively weak R&D spillovers and intermediate trade costs, the smaller economy tends to specialize in R&D. For certain parameterizations, both concentration and dispersion of R&D activities are possible outcomes. Hosting an agglomeration of R&D activities does not necessarily lead to welfare gains.
We analyze the impact of multinational and foreign ownership on the demand for job tasks and educational skills. By using Swedish matched employer-employee data, we find that both foreign and domestic multinational firms have high shares of nonroutine tasks and tasks requiring personal interaction. Moreover, acquisitions of local firms by multinationals increase the relative demand for non-routine and interactive job tasks in the targeted firms. The differences in the demand for job tasks are only partly explained by firm characteristics. Dividing employees by education instead of job tasks does not result in the same effects on relative labor demand, which shows that task measures do indeed capture a new labor market aspect. JEL: J23, F16, F21, F23
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