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Are Bigger Banks Better? Firm-Level Evidence from Germany
Huber, Kilian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
quasi-exogenous increases in bank size in postwar Germany. I show that firms did not grow faster after their relationship …
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Foreign Corporations and the Culture of Transparency : Evidence from Russian Administrative Data
Braguinsky, Serguey - 2012
Foreign-owned firms from advanced countries carry the culture of transparency in business transactions that is orthogonal to the culture of hiding and insider dealing in many developing economies and economies in transition. In this paper, we document this using administrative data on reported...
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Foreign direct investment
Froot, Kenneth (ed.) - 1993
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Mergers and productivity
Kaplan, Steven N. (ed.) - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001421960
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The Effects of Taxation on the Merger Decision
Auerbach, Alan J. - 1987
This paper presents estimates of the tax benefits generated by a sample of U.S. mergers and acquisitions involving two public corporations over the period 1968-83 and estimates a "marriage model" based on differences between these mergers and another sample of "pseudomergers" that did not occur...
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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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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 are in the business of taking calculated risks. Expanding the geographic footprint of an organization's profit-making activities changes the geographic pattern of its exposure to loss in ways that are hard for regulators and supervisors to observe. This paper tests and confirms 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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Post-Merger Restructuring and the Boundaries of the Firm
Maksimovic, Vojislav - 2008
Mergers and acquisitions are a fast way for a firm to grow. Using plant-level data, we examine how firms redraw their boundaries after acquisitions. We find that there is a large amount of restructuring in a short period following mergers. Acquirers sell 27% and close 19% of acquired plants...
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