Innovation and Foreign Ownership

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 8141

43 Pages Posted: 30 Nov 2010

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Maria Guadalupe

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); INSEAD - Economics and Political Sciences; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Olga Kuzmina

New Economic School (NES); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Catherine Thomas

Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance

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Date Written: November 22, 2010

Abstract

This paper uses a rich panel dataset of Spanish manufacturing firms (1990-2006) and a propensity score reweighting estimator to show that multinational firms acquire the most productive domestic firms, which, on acquisition, conduct more product and process innovation (simultaneously adopting new machines and organizational practices) and adopt foreign technologies, leading to higher productivity. We propose a model of endogenous selection and innovation in heterogeneous firms that jointly explains the observed selection process and the innovation decisions. Further, we show in the data that innovation on acquisition is associated with the increased market scale provided by the parent firm.

Keywords: Foreign Ownership, Productivity, Multinational Production, Innovation

JEL Classification: D22, F23, O31

Suggested Citation

Guadalupe, Maria and Guadalupe, Maria and Kuzmina, Olga and Thomas, Catherine, Innovation and Foreign Ownership (November 22, 2010). CEPR Discussion Paper No. 8141, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1717243 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1717243

Maria Guadalupe (Contact Author)

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Catherine Thomas

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