share of sales from product innovations is not significantly affected by a foreign takeover for a given amount of innovation …

merger related effects on small business lending in Germany from a bank-level perspective. Furthermore, we estimate small … strong evidence that in Germany merging savings banks do not significantly change the extent to which they lend to small … businesses compared to prior to the merger or compared to the contemporaneous lending by non-merging banks. We investigate the …

-law countries (the UK and the US) and two countries governed by legal codes (France and Germany) and presents data showing the … first and most easily in a code country (Germany) and last and with the most difficulty in a common-law country (the US …