Innovative startups are frequently acquired by large incumbent firms. On the one hand, these acquisitions provide an … startups just to "kill" their ideas, and acquisitions can erode incumbents' own innovation incentives. Our paper aims to assess … the net effect of these forces. To do so, we build an endogenous growth model with heterogeneous firms and acquisitions …

a community will be more assimilated and wealthier or less assimilated and poorer. With a leader cultural integration … is more connected. Lump sum transfers to immigrants can hinder cultural integration. These findings are in line with … integration patterns of various ethnic and religious groups. …

effects. -- merger simulation ; merger control ; antitrust ; oligopoly theory ; auction models ; mergers & acquisitions … of state-of-the-art merger simulation models and review their previous employment in merger cases as well as the problems …