and other influences by examining merger patterns for both listed and unlisted firms. If "real" changes in the economy … drive merger waves, as some neoclassical theories of mergers predict, both listed and unlisted firms should experience waves …. We find significant differences between listed and unlisted firms as predicted by behavioral theories of merger waves. …

In the context of increasing globalization of markets, merger and acquisition activities in the 1990s are said to be …

The paper studies the effects of the Pfizer and Pharmacia (2003) merger on competition in the Swiss pharmaceutical … market and compares the assessment of the Swiss Competition Commission (COMCO) with the post-merger market developments. We … find that the merger has had a miniscule impact on the Swiss pharmaceutical market. This has primarily to do with the fact …

dataset on the transparency on merger control in the EU banking sector, we estimate the probability that a bank is taken over … merger control lacks transparency. This is in line with the hypothesis that governments may block crossborder bank merger …Although there is anecdotal evidence that merger control may constitute a barrier to the integration of European retail …

paper provides empirical evidence on post-merger mobility and productivity of 673 inventors employed by European acquisition … with the merged entity; 2.) inventors that left the acquired firm are less productive in post-merger years than those that …

probability that a bank is taken over as a function of bank and country characteristics and the transparency of merger control … market. Based on a dataset on the transparency on the supervisory review process of bank mergers in the EU, I estimate the … regulatory process is transparent. Particularly large banks seem to be less likely to be taken over by foreign banks if merger …

, products or other valuable resources of the target firm. Given this heterogeneity of takeover motivations and the skewness of … the distribution of the deal value we show whether and how the importance of different takeover motivations changes along …