BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//eluceo/ical//2.0/EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:88a23a65193f60bd6bb4e78277dfeb5c DTSTAMP:20251030T075159Z SUMMARY:Dr. Chad Syverson\, Chicago Booth DESCRIPTION: \n\n“Acquisitions\, Productivity\, and Profitability: Eviden ce from the\nJapanese Cotton Spinning Industry”\n\nAbstract: We explore how changes in ownership affect the productivity\nand profitability of pro ducers. Using detailed data from the Japanese\ncotton spinning industry at the turn of the last century\, we find that\nacquired firms’ production facilities were not on average less\nphysically productive than the plant s of the acquiring firms before\nacquisition. They were much less profitab le\, however\, due to higher\ninventory levels and lower capacity utilizat ion—differences that\nreflected problems in managing the uncertainties o f demand. After\nacquisitions\, less profitable acquired plants saw drops in inventories\nand gains in capacity utilization that raised both their p roductivity\nand profitability levels.\n DTSTART:20150417T180000Z DTEND:20150417T193000Z LOCATION:http://home.uchicago.edu/syverson/acquisitions.pdf END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR