matched employeremployee data. We observe above average separations of workers around domestic acquisitions. This is … associated with a decline in unobserved worker quality in the plant. Foreign acquisitions are not associated with above average …

are not used in the market. We show that such "acquisitions for sleep" can occur if and only if the quality of a process …

We show that for a spatially differentiated economy reduced product variety is the likely outcome of mergers except in …

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 … investigated mergers and whether a more effective merger control regime can be achieved within the current legal framework. …

We set up a model to analyze the effects of mergers between sellers of complementary components where firms invest in …

these multi-sided companies along with each company’s most important market segments. We then track their mergers and … acquisitions and match them with the segments. This exercise shows that these five firms use M&A activity mostly to strengthen …, therefore, acquisition appears to be a substitute for in-house R&D. Finally, from our check for possible "killer acquisitions …

. That includes mergers that are known to be unprofitable in the corresponding static equilibrium framework. …