operating costs and greater liquidity. As market players actively try to achieve economies of scale and scope with mergers and … version of a Bank of Finland working paper (Financial Markets Department 01/04). …

We examined mergers and acquisitions in the service sector and the effects of the transition to foreign ownership. We … analyzed firm-level data encompassing 1,243 service sector acquisitions that occurred from 2009-2018. The most foreign … acquisitions occurred in the health and social services, business services, and trade; the largest shares were noted in health and …

This study examines mergers and acquisitions and their economic impact on companies. The study examined which companies … in Finland become the targets of acquisitions, how the economic activities of the target companies develop after the … change of ownership and whether there is a difference between domestic and foreign acquisitions in these respects. The study …