applied to health care: hospital mergers, monopsony, and foreclosure. In each of these sections we review the relevant …

We examine the effects of bank merger and local market characteristics on local small business lending. Mergers … target banks are located. Conversely, mergers involving large, out-of-state acquirers are associated with fewer SBL … number of small firms. Post-merger activity supports banks expanding on their acquisition strategy decisions. The findings …

the extent to which this motivation leads to mergers, we perform a textual analysis of the patents filed by the same lead … inventors of the target firms before and after the mergers. We find that patents of inventors from target firms become 28.9% to … 46.8% more specific to those of acquirers' inventors following completed mergers, benchmarked against patents filed by …

research in the areas of collusion and merger enforcement. Research relating to both collusion and mergers has made significant … sustainability, structure, and impact of collusive schemes. With respect to mergers, this includes important work on the impact of … which mergers get proposed to antitrust agencies and optimal policy in the face of that selection. A feature of recent …

Despite the continuing US hospital merger wave, it remains unclear how mergers change, or fail to change, hospital … behavior and performance. We open the "black box" of hospital practices through a mega-merger between two for-profit chains …. Benchmarking the merger's effects against the acquirer's stated aims, we show they achieved some of their goals, harmonizing …

Antitrust authorities search public documents to discover anticompetitive mergers. Thus, investor disclosures may alert …, we present a method for measuring undisclosed merger activity that relies on financial accounting reporting requirements …. We find that undisclosed mergers total $2.3 trillion between 2002 and 2016 …

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 … that the tax losses and credits of acquired firms likewise exerted no impact on merger activity. Though the use of such …