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How do start-up acquisitions affect the direction of innovation?
Dijk, Esmée S. R.; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - 2021
relative to what is socially optimal. Moreover, prohibiting acquisitions may increase or decrease consumer surplus. The more …, the more likely is that consumers benefit (suffer) following an acquisition. These results are robust to acquisitions …
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The political economy of dominant investors
Perotti, Enrico C.; Thadden, Ernst-Ludwig von - 2005
We allow the preference of a political majority to determine boththe corporate governance structure and the division of profits betweenhuman and financial capital. In a democratic society where financialwealth is concentrated, a political majority may prefer to restraingovernance by dispersed...
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Winning by losing : evidence on overbidding in mergers
Malmendier, Ulrike; Moretti, Enrico; Peters, Florian - 2011
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Event studies in merger analysis : review and an application using U.S. TNIC data
Klein, Timo - 2020 - Revision: March 2020
. Event studies have been used as one method to acquire empirical insights into the competitive effects of mergers. However ….S. mergers between 1997 and 2017. I document that following a merger announcement, the most likely competitors experience on …
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Corporate social responsibility by joint agreement
Schinkel, Maarten-Pieter; Treuren, Leonard - 2021
Industry-wide voluntary agreements are touted as a means for corporations to take more corporate social responsibility (CSR). We study what type of joint CSR agreement induces firms to increase CSR efforts in a model of oligopolistic competition with differentiated products. Consumers have a...
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Territorial capital and regional growth : increasing returns in cognitive knowledge use
Capello, Roberta; Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - 2009
Knowledge drives the growth of nations and regions in a competitive space-economy. Hence, we would expect a strong correlation between investments in R&D, knowledge and learning processes, on the one hand, and productivity increases, on the other. However, the empirical evidence shows consistent...
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What drives donor funding in population assistance programs?
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Reuser, Mieke - 2005
The 1994 International Conference of Population and Development (ICPD) established goals for the expansion of population assistance. This global effort has so far not sufficiently been supported by donor funds. Dynamic panel estimation methods are used to see what lies behind the sharing of...
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Consolidation waves
Berg, Ward A. van den; Smit, Han T. J. - 2007
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 …
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Acquisitions as a real options bidding game
Smit, Han T. J.; Berg, Ward A. van den; De Maeseneire, … - 2005
expected target value, and uncertainty, determine value appropriation in acquisitions. …
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Corporate acquisitions and bank relationships
Volosovych, Vadym; Poelhekke, Steven; Vlahu, Razvan - 2021
dynamics of bank relationships after corporate acquisitions and the effects of changing banks on firm performance. Foreign …
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