Provides a detailed analytical assessment of the merger and acquisition phenomenon in banking. It advances the prior literature focusing on some specific aspects that have been investigated by only limited previous analysis by assessing the effect produced by M&A transactions on bank efficiency...

Globalization and the financial crisis highlight the problems caused by worldwide banking organizations and force financial groups to reassess their development strategies. This book discusses the impact of the crisis on the consolidation process in the European financial industry and the need...

This comprehensive volume tackles all aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions activity - including regional concentration of M&As at a global level, the impact of the economic crisis, and theoretical concepts and practical applications.

Grundlegende Perspektiven und Definitionen zentraler Begriffe -- Bestandsaufnahme zum Management von Unternehmensveränderungen und -zusammenschlüssen -- Theoretisch-konzeptionelle Ansätze zu Unternehmensveränderungen -- Qualitative empirische Untersuchung -- Quantitative empirische...

Verschmelzungen bewirken den rechtlichen Untergang eines Steuersubjekts. Der Frage, ob dieser Umstand als auslösender Tatbestand für Steuerwirkungen herangezogen werden kann, kommt insbesondere für die Besteuerung grenzüberschreitender Verschmelzungen eine herausragende Bedeutung zu. Auf der...

Kai Oliver Thiele analyses M&As between companies from different cultures, which in general impose unique challenges, but also offer invaluable opportunities for all parties. Since Japan lags expectations regarding the amount of cross-border M&As, it is the more important to understand the...

Antitrust economics is a field that draws extensively on the economic theory of industrial organization, and the field's frontier is at the cutting edge of economic research. This book bridges the gap between introductory texts and advanced research volumes by presenting select themes in...

Dieses Handbuch zeigt auf, wie Unternehmenswachstum nachhaltig gelingen und gestärkt werden kann. Dabei liegt der Fokus auf der ostdeutschen Wirtschaft, da die Region auch 25 Jahre nach der deutschen Einheit in den wesentlichen Kennzahlen 20-30% hinter den westdeutschen Werten liegt, was im...

This book is one of the very few published investigations of international business in a Japanese context, based on an up-to-date overview of the Japanese mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market in particular. The author explicates recent developments in Japanese business and shows how Japanese...

This Brief identifies and contrasts the groups of National Basketball Association (NBA) expansion franchises and of any teams that relocated from one metropolitan area or city to another from 1950 to 2013. It discusses historical differences and similarities in the teams’ markets and...