We analyze how foreign direct investment (FDI) affects employment security using administrative microdata for German employees. Measuring FDI intensity at the industry level enables us to take into account the sum of direct effects at multinationals as well as indirect effects of FDI throughout...

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....