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

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 …

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 (M&A) investment responds to …, i.e., the 'Free-Cash Flow' story works, but explains a small fraction of mergers only, and 3. The merger waves of 1900 …

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

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

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 …

Does corporate diversification reduce shareholder value? Since firms endogenously choose to diversify, exogenous … variation in diversification is necessary in order to draw inferences about the causal effect. We examine changes in the within … investment, are negatively related to firm value. Thus diversification destroys value, consistent with the inefficient internal …

This paper examines the effect of geographic and industrial diversification on firm value for a sample of over 20 … diversification results in over-estimation of the negative value impact of industrial diversification, but has little impact on … estimates of the positive value impact of geographic diversification …