House Price, Ownership Type and Firm Innovation

Innovation and Institutional Ownership

Does greater equity ownership by institutional investors improve or inhibit innovation incentives? We present a model of career concerns where institutional ownership increases the incentives managers have to innovate through reducing informational asymmetries. We then utilize an original panel of US firms containing information on ownership, governance, managerial characteristics and innovatio...

Firm Ownership and Economic Efficiency

JEL: D24, L33

Innovation and Foreign Ownership

This paper uses a rich panel dataset of Spanish manufacturing rms (1990-2006) and a propensity score reweighting estimator to show that multinational rms acquire the most productive domestic rms, which, on acquisition, conduct more product and process innovation (simultaneously adopting new machines and organizational practices) and adopt foreign technologies, leading to higher productivity....

Ownership of the Firm

Firm-to-Firm Relationships and Price Rigidity

Economists have long suspected that firm-to-firm relationships might increase price rigidity due to the use of explicit or implicit fixed-price contracts. Using confidential, transaction-level import data from the U.S. Census, I study the pass-through of exchange rate changes and show that prices are in fact substantially more responsive to cost shocks in older versus newly formed relationships...