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Foreign direct investment
Froot, Kenneth (ed.) - 1993
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Swedish Firms Acquired by Foreigners : A Comparison of Before and After Takeover
Lipsey, Robert E. - 1982
relatively low in value added per employee at the time of takeover and before, a characteristic we take to indicate relatively …-term recoveries after takeover from the misfortunes of the takeover year and a return to higher growth rates of employment and output … year or two after takeover but seem to have increased their profitability or efficiency relative to their industries. The …
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World Markets for Mergers and Acquisitions
Erel, Isil - 2009
Despite the fact that one-third of worldwide mergers involve firms from different countries, the vast majority of the academic literature on mergers studies domestic mergers. What little has been written about cross-border mergers has focused on public firms, usually from the United States. Yet,...
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Extending Industry Specialization through Cross-Border Acquisitions
Frésard, Laurent - 2016
We investigate the role of industry specialization in horizontal cross-border mergers and acquisitions. We find that acquirers from more specialized industries in a country are more likely to buy foreign targets in countries that are less specialized in these same industries. The role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455832
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Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions
Erel, Isil; Jang, Yeejin; Weisbach, Michael S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
total number and 37% of the total volume of M&As around the world since the early 1990s. We survey the literature on cross …
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The Effects of Taxation on the Merger Decision
Auerbach, Alan J. - 1987
that the tax losses and credits of acquired firms likewise exerted no impact on merger activity. Though the use of such …
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How to Get Away with Merger : Stealth Consolidation and Its Real Effects on US Healthcare
Wollmann, Thomas G. - 2020
Most US mergers are not reported to the government on the basis of their size, which can effectively exempt them from antitrust scrutiny, thereby leading to anticompetitive behavior. This paper studies premerger notification exemptions in the US dialysis industry. Over two decades, dialysis...
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Evidence of Regulatory Arbitrage in Cross-Border Mergers of Banks in the EU
Carbo-Valverde, Santiago - 2009
banks in individual EU countries help to explain the nature of cross-border merger activity. If they wish to protect …
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Post-Merger Restructuring and the Boundaries of the Firm
Maksimovic, Vojislav - 2008
. The extent of post-merger restructuring activities and their cross-sectional variation do not support an empire building …
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Product Market Synergies and Competition in Mergers and Acquisitions : A Text-Based Analysis
Hoberg, Gerard - 2008
We examine how product differentiation influences mergers and acquisitions and the ability of firms to exploit product market synergies. Using novel text-based analysis of firm 10K product descriptions, we find three key results. (1) Firms are more likely to enter restructuring transactions when...
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