Christian Funke aims at developing a better understanding of a central asset pricing issue: the stock price discovery process in capital markets. Using U.S. capital market data, he investigates the importance of mergers and acquisitions (MA) for stock prices and examines economic links between...

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.

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...

Investigates the dynamic welfare effects of exposure to trade in a new trade model. This book uses a new trade model to explore which country-specific conditions give rise to horizontal or vertical multinational activity. It analyzes the role of goods trade and horizontal multinational firms in...

Grundlagen -- Einführung und grundlegende Begriffe -- Konkurrierende anspruchsgruppenorientierte Erklärungs- und Gestaltungsansätze für Fusionen und Akquisitionen -- Die betriebswirtschaftlich-politologische Zielsicherungskonzeption als theoretischer Bezugsrahmen zur Analyse und Gestaltung...