We examine the effects of bank merger and local market characteristics on local small business lending. Mergers … number of small firms. Post-merger activity supports banks expanding on their acquisition strategy decisions. The findings …

research in the areas of collusion and merger enforcement. Research relating to both collusion and mergers has made significant …-based measurement) and theoretical work in advancing our understanding of collusive and merger-related phenomena …

Despite the continuing US hospital merger wave, it remains unclear how mergers change, or fail to change, hospital … behavior and performance. We open the "black box" of hospital practices through a mega-merger between two for-profit chains …. Benchmarking the merger's effects against the acquirer's stated aims, we show they achieved some of their goals, harmonizing …

, we present a method for measuring undisclosed merger activity that relies on financial accounting reporting requirements …

that the tax losses and credits of acquired firms likewise exerted no impact on merger activity. Though the use of such …

One motive that is often cited for merger activity is the avoidance of federal income taxes by corporations and their … shareholders. Yet there is little empirical evidence on the tax consequences of merger activity, or on the postmerger effects on …