industries in the sector-specific takeover market, this working paper proves the common knowledge for the example of … corporate characteristics are of significant importance. With respect to prevailing takeover strategies, the survey reveals a …-affected takeover strategies that are elaborated on more closely within the working paper. Examining an acquisition focus in terms of …

We analyze a Bayesian merger game under two-sided asymmetric information about firm types. We show that the standard … prediction of the lemons market model-if any, only low-type firms are traded-is likely to be misleading: Merger returns, i.e. the … difference between pre- and post-merger profits, are not necessarily higher for low-type firms. This has two implications. First …

The purpose of this report is to contribute to the analysis of two questions. Should a merger control system take into … theoretical and empirical studies of mergers and merger control. Next, we review the current legal practice in seven OECD … jurisdictions. Finally, we propose a merger control system, emphasising the central role of informational limitations. Based on our …

We investigate the competitive effects of the merger between Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines (2009) in the … increases of about 11 percent on overlapping routes and about 10 percent on routes which experienced a merger-induced switch of … the operating carrier. Over a longer period, however, our analysis reveals that both merger efficiencies and post-merger …

larger price increases than mergerrelated exits. Within the merger category, our analysis reveals significant price increases … on all affected routes immediately after the exit events. In the medium and long-run, however, realized merger …

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 …