—measured by college reputation—may likewise signal their ability. We use data on the admission scores of all Colombian college … graduates to define a measure of reputation that gives clear predictions in a signaling framework. We find that college … reputation, unlike years of schooling, is correlated with graduates' earnings growth. We also show that Colombia's staggered …

this, the UK government has pursued an active policy of hospital merger. These mergers are initiated by a regulator, acting … on behalf of the public, and justified on the grounds that merger will improve outcomes. We examine whether this promise … involved in a merger, but that politics means that selection for a merger may be random with respect to future performance. We …

appliance markets most affected by the merger to markets where concentration changed much less or not at all. We estimate price …

industry merger and acquisition activity. All of these effects are stronger for smaller firms than for larger firms …

The 2010 Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Horizontal Merger Guidelines lay out a new standard for … cases in which the GUPPI would imply increased regulatory scrutiny of a proposed merger …

banks in individual EU countries help to explain the nature of cross-border merger activity. If they wish to protect …

In this paper we propose a method to evaluate the effectiveness of U.S. horizontal merger policy and apply it to the … merger had little effect …