Using a detailed and large data set on cross-border merger and acquisitions we discuss the relationship between theory …

This study investigates the impact of firm-specific discount factors on merger formation and market performance. We … explain merger formation and the impact on product market performance. More specifically, we find that acquiring firms …

differential merger outcomes are caused mostly by firms' technology or product market attributes. Furthermore, empirical merger …. We allow the merger responses to vary across firms, even after controlling for regressors, and apply a random …

access to the rest of the world (through transport hubs) are key drivers for target selection …

We analyze the impact of a merger on firms' incentives to innovate. We show that the merging parties always decrease … their innovation efforts post-merger while the outsiders to the merger respond by increasing their effort. A merger tends to … reduce overall innovation. Consumers are always worse off after a merger. Our model calls into question the applicability of …

In this paper we compare the profitability of a merger to the profitability of a partial ownership arrangement and find …

within the firm. The welfare analysis illustrates that larger countries are better off after the merger. By contrast, smaller … countries may lose, if the pre-merger production cost differential across firms is negligible and/or a post-merger technology … effects of a merger. In this respect, the main result of the paper is that an adjustment of plant location in space can …