Fons-Rosen, Christian; Roldan-Blanco, Pau; Schmitz, Tom - 2022 - This version: December 9, 2022
the net effect of these forces. To do so, we build an endogenous growth model with heterogeneous firms and acquisitions …. Our calibrated model implies that acquisitions raise the startup rate, but lower incumbents' own innovation as well as the … would increase growth by 0.03 percentage points per year, and raise welfare by 1.8%. …