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Frank R. Lichtenberg, Donald Siegel, Dale Jorgenson, Edwin Mansfield, Productivity and Changes in Ownership of Manufacturing Plants, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Vol. 1987, No. 3, Special Issue On Microeconomics (1987), pp. 643-683
Lichtenberg et al. (Thu,) studied this question.