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

Focusing on takeover bids whose outcome can be predicted in advance with certainty, Grossman and Hart established the …

The Q-theory of investment says that a firm's investment rate should rise with its Q. We argue here that this theory … also explains why some firms buy other firms. We find that 1. A firm's merger and acquisition (Mamp;A) investment responds … investment, i.e., the 'Free-Cash Flow' story works, but explains a small fraction of mergers only, and 3. The merger waves of …

We study optimal merger policy in a dynamic model in which the presence of scale economies implies that firms can … the period the merger is proposed. We also find that the ability to commit can lead to a significant welfare improvement …

In this paper, we develop a novel theory of cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Firms can choose between different … modes of foreign market access: exporting, greenfield FDI, and cross-border M&A. Our theory is based on three key ideas …. Third, capabilities are traded in a merger market. We address two questions: (1) what are the characteristics of firms that …

are robust to a range of approaches to address the endogeneity of firms' merger decisions …

We determine firms' equity ownership structures and provide a theory of hostile takeovers by distinguishing the roles …-cost free' capital is scarce. We investigate the allocation of this scarce resource. A hostile takeover is the consequence of a … investors. Even though all firms are ex ante identical, some may rely on the takeover mechanism while others rely on permanent …

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 …