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

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. …

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 …

probability that a bank is taken over as a function of bank and country characteristics and the transparency of merger control … regulatory process is transparent. Particularly large banks seem to be less likely to be taken over by foreign banks if merger …