Do shareholders of acquiring companies profit from acquisitions, or do acquiring CEOs overbid and destroy shareholder … an informative estimate of the causal effect of mergers in our sample. Existing measures of long-run abnormal returns …

expected target value, and uncertainty, determine value appropriation in acquisitions. …

This paper explains why consolidation acquisitions occur in waves and it predicts the differing role each firm is … initial acquisition triggers a wave of follow-on acquisitions, where the process of asset accumulation by the consolidator is … accelerated since the value of follow-on acquisitions is enhanced by the more concentrated industry structure. An initial …

We study mergers in a market where <I>N</I> firms sell a homogeneous good and consumers search sequentially to discover … prices. The main motivation for such an analysis is that mergers generally affect market prices and thereby, in a search … firms to merge and the welfare implications of mergers. When search costs are relatively small, mergers turn out not to be …