‪Que deviennent les entreprises acquises par des groupes ?‪

Richard Duhautois and Héloïse Petit

Revue d'économie industrielle, 2013, vol. n° 144, issue 4, 113-144

Abstract: ?In this paper, we analyze the trajectory of independent firms absorbed by a business group. Business groups traditionally buy high performance independent firms but do they also contribute to their growth after? We use an original dataset built with two administrative files and a survey and we are able to follow firms 3 years before and 3 years after their acquisition by a business group. We use matching difference-in-differences estimators in order to check whether the employment and productivityin independent firms increase after their acquisition by a business group. Not surprisingly, our results first show that acquired firms are more productive than those which stay independent; second, they show that, after acquisition, employment and productivity increase faster for acquired firms.?

Keywords: Business Groups; Trajectory of Firms; Difference-in-Differences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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