Abstract This economic policy forum is assigned to the relevance of mergers in the era of globalization. Stefan Voigt argues that the number as well as the relevance of mergers has dramatically increased over the last couple of years. This has led to demands to modify the competition policies...

The business literature has long recognized the importance of multinationals’ distribution networks. The empirical analysis of distribution-oriented FDI has, however, received little attention which is at least partly due to the lack of appropriate data. We present a slightly modified version...