Contractual buyout (CoBO) is a new “collective ownership and joint administrative strategy”, which gives an opportunity to buy a target firm in the given period when the given contract ends between acquirer, target firm, and financier. It is a takeover defensive method and tends to avail tax...

While referring to the recent study on the 2007-2008 global financial crisis, and cross-border mergers and acquisitions in 26 countries (Reddy, Nangia, & Agrawal, 2014b), this paper aims to further examine the impact of financial crisis on the later form of market in 13 sub-continentals, three...

In the article the situation on the Russian market of mergers and acquisitions in 2005-2012 is investigated. Also was produced its comparison with the world market for key indicators. The author based on extensive statistical analysis of the material revealed the specific features and tendencies...

In the article was analyzed the presence of foreign capital in the banking system of Ukraine, ways and methods of its inflow. The basis of the study was the dynamics of the value and number of mergers and acquisitions of Ukrainian banks with foreign investors during the period 2004-2009. Were...

Specific feature of the present stage of financial markets development is strengthening of internationalization processes, manifested in erasing national borders between states, formation of international financial market, establishment of transnational financial corporations as well as growing...

This paper is the first, to our knowledge, to make the distinction between the investment opportunity set of real assets versus portfolio securities. We perform a large scale formal investigation of the investment opportunity set in global acquisitions based on ownership type over the period of...

According to an article in 2008 issue of The Globe titled “Newly Introduced Alcohol Marketing Strategies: Thai experience” provided by the Global Alcohol Policy Alliance, Thailand is classified as an "emerging market" in regards to the growth and development of the alcohol industry. The...

In article emergence and development of concept of synergetic effect of M&A and ideas of it from 1960th to the present is considered. The author generalized data of a number of the researches proving that M&A not so surely lead to achievement of the positive synergetic effect which is usually...

This paper aims at accomplishing three objectives while drawing attention to the speed of adapting international management practices in emerging markets. Firstly, we summarize 67 extant review studies on entry-mode/internationalization, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and diversification....

The financial crisis has affected the landscape of the banking sector around the world. We use a sample of transactions taking place in Europe in 2007-2010 to study the acquirer’s stock price market reaction to announcements and completions of acquisitions. We find that there are no...