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Unlocking the value of cross-border mergers and acquisitions
Brakman, Steven; Garita, Gus; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003711774
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Cross-border mergers & acquisitions : the facts as a guide for international economics
Brakman, Steven (contributor); Garretsen, Harry (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003379813
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Effects of territorial and worldwide corporation tax systems on outbound M&As
Feld, Lars P.; Ruf, Martin; Scheuering, Uwe; Schreiber, … - 2013
Repatriation taxes reduce the competitiveness of multinational firms from tax credit countries when bidding for targets in low tax countries. This comparative disadvantage with respect to bidders from exemption countries violates ownership neutrality, which results in production inefficiencies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199701
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Cross-border mergers and acquisitions : on revealed comparative advantage and merger waves
Brakman, Steven (contributor); Garretsen, Harry (contributor) - 2005
By combining two large data sets (on international trade flows and on mergers and acquisitions M&As), we are able to test two implications of Neary's (2003, 2004a) recent theoretical work. Analyzing M&As in a General Oligopolistic Equilibrium (GOLE) model incorporating strategic interaction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003204045
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Merger policy in digital markets : an ex-post assessment
Argentesi, Elena; Buccirossi, Paolo; Calvano, Emilio; … - 2019
This paper presents a broad retrospective evaluation of mergers and merger decisions in the digital sector. We first … theories of harm in major merger cases in the past few years. We then analyse the characteristics of almost 300 acquisitions … important merger cases, Facebook/Instagram and Google/Waze, providing a systematic assessment of the theories of harm considered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138666
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Corporate acquisitions and firm-level uncertainty : domestic versus cross-border deals
Bai, Ye; Girma, Sourafel; Riaño, Alejandro - 2020
This paper studies the impact of corporate acquisitions - both domestic and cross-border - on the uncertainty faced by acquiring firms. We use data for UK publicly-listed firms from 2004 to 2017 and employ a matching estimator combined with difference-in-differences to control for the endogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012158166
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Horizontal merger under strategic tax policy
Liu, Chih-Chen; Mukherjee, Arijit; Wang, Leonard F. S. - 2014
We show that the presence of a strategic tax policy increases the incentive for a horizontal merger compared to the … a horizontal merger that has been ignored in the existing literature. In contrast to the usual belief, we also show that … a horizontal merger may benefit the consumers and the society. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412755
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Merger in contests
Huck, Steffen; Konrad, Kai A.; Müller, Wieland - 2000
Competition in some markets is a contest. This paper studies the merger incentives in such markets. Merger can be … profitable. The profitability depends on the post-merger contest st ructure, the discriminatory power of the contest and on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781515
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Source versus residence based taxation with international mergers and acquisitions
Becker, Johannes; Fuest, Clemens - 2009
This paper analyses tax competition and tax coordination in a model where capital flows occur in the form of mergers and acquisitions, rather than greenfield investment. In this framework, we show that differences in residence based taxes do not necessarily distort international ownership...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003910411
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Mergers and partial ownership
Foros, Oystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Shaffer, Greg Eric - 2010
In this paper we compare the profitability of a merger to the profitability of a partial ownership arrangement and find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925257