-price of giving and the German church tax, differently affect charitable donations of church members, individuals leaving … church and nonchurch members. We find crowding in between the church tax and charitable giving for church members, but not … for the church-leavers. In contrast to church members, donations of church-leavers and non-members are also highly …

to study both competitive interaction in general and the potential price effects of a recently announced merger of the … empirical results suggest short-term price increases on certain route types post-merger, it remains an open question whether the … merger should be classified as anticompetitive. …

We study the fiscal consequences of municipal mergers by making use of a largescale merger reform in the German federal … panel data from 1995-2010 at the level of post-merger municipalities. We find significant reductions in (administrative … effects of voluntary and compulsory mergers vary according to further (secondary) characteristics of a merger. …

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

America West Airlines - US Airways merger completed in 2005. We find that although average prices increased substantially on … routes in which both airlines competed either on a non-stop or one-stop basis prior to the merger, substantial average price … reductions observed for routes without any premerger overlap suggest that the merger led to a net increase in consumer welfare. …

Although there is anecdotal evidence that merger control may constitute a barrier to the integration of European retail … dataset on the transparency on merger control in the EU banking sector, we estimate the probability that a bank is taken over … as a function of its characteristics, country characteristics and the transparency of merger control in the banking …

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 …