Multinational Networks, Domestic,and Foreign Firms in Europe

Bruno Merlevede, Matthijs de Zwaan, Karolien Lenaerts and Victoria Purice ()

Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium from Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Abstract: This paper introduces two datasets, AUGAMA, a panel of European firms for the period 1996-2011, and EUMULNET, a European Multinational Network data set. These datasets are constructed on the basis of the Amadeus database issued by Bureau Van Dijk Electronic Publishing. We document the process of building these data sets from the raw Amadeus data for 26 European countries. We show that the data sets adequately approximate the structure of the European economy across countries, regions, and industries as portrayed by data from Eurostat (Structural Business Statistics) and Cambridge Econometrics. As an illustration of possible application, we use the datasets to test a number of results from the theoretical literature regarding the productivity of multinational firms vis-a-vis domestic firms.

Keywords: multinationals; firm performance; total factor productivity; firm-level data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 55 pages
Date: 2015-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-cse, nep-eff, nep-eur, nep-int, nep-mfd, nep-net and nep-sbm
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