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

relatively low in value added per employee at the time of takeover and before, a characteristic we take to indicate relatively …-term recoveries after takeover from the misfortunes of the takeover year and a return to higher growth rates of employment and output … year or two after takeover but seem to have increased their profitability or efficiency relative to their industries. The …

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

. The extent of post-merger restructuring activities and their cross-sectional variation do not support an empire building …

effect of a merger on the behavior of rival firms, and instrumenting for these mergers, unbiased estimates of the effect of a … merger on market outcomes can be obtained. Using this methodology, I evaluate the impact of independent hospital mergers … between 1989 and 1996 on rivals' prices. I find sharp increases in rivals' prices following a merger, with the greatest effect …

The merger of Fleet and BankBoston in September 1999 resulted in a regional New England lending market in which only … one large, universal bank remained. We explore the extent to which that merger resulted in monopoly rents for the combined … merger, Fleet and BankBoston charged unusually low loan interest rates, reflecting their ability to realize economies of …