Arbeitspapier
Foreign ownership, returns to scale and productivity: evidence from UK manufacturing establisments
This paper calculates returns to scale and productivity growth (allowing for non-constant returns to scale) in UK manufacturing establishments in the electronics and food industries. Our results show that foreign establishments tend to have lower returns to scale than their domestic counterparts. We also examine the effect of the acquisition of a domestic establishment by a foreign owner on returns to scale and productivity growth. We use a matching and difference-in-differences methodology which allows us to construct a reasonable counterfactual and to determine the post-acquisition changes in RTS and productivity that can be attributed to the incidence of acquisition, rather than to changes in other external conditions. In both sectors, acquisition has a negative effect on RTS, although the effect appears stronger in the food sector. The effect of foreign acquisition on productivity differs between sectors; establishments in the electronics sector experience a reduction in productivity post acquisition, while plants in the food sector increase productivity.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Research Paper ; No. 2002,07
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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Skalenertrag
Produktivität
Eigentümerstruktur
Elektronikindustrie
Nahrungsmittelgewerbe
Großbritannien
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Girma, Sourafel
Görg, Holger
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, University of Nottingham
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Nottingham
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2002
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Girma, Sourafel
- Görg, Holger
- Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, University of Nottingham
Entstanden
- 2002
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