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Les effets des fusions et acquisitions transfrontaliers sur la performance domestique des acquéreurs: résultats au niveau de la firme .
Author(s) -
Stiebale Joel,
Trax Michaela
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
canadian journal of economics/revue canadienne d'économique
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1540-5982
pISSN - 0008-4085
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2011.01662.x
Subject(s) - productivity , matching (statistics) , mergers and acquisitions , business , monetary economics , cross country , investment (military) , industrial organization , balance sheet , international economics , international trade , economics , finance , macroeconomics , statistics , mathematics , politics , political science , law
Abstract This paper provides empirical evidence on the effects of cross‐border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on the acquiring firms’ domestic performance in the U.K. and France. We build a new firm‐level data set that combines a global M&A database with balance sheet data for the years 2000 to 2007. Combining matching techniques with a difference‐in‐differences estimator, we find that cross‐border M&As boost on average acquirers’ domestic sales and investment, and they are not accompanied by a downsizing of the domestic labour force in either country. Further, cross‐border M&As in knowledge‐intensive industries lead to improvements in domestic productivity. Our results display some heterogeneity across industries and types of acquisitions, suggesting a connection between the motives for international M&As and their resulting effects.