and the Dun & Bradstreet exit database for Switzerland (1995-2000). Employing duration analysis, we find considerable …

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 …

German banks experienced a merger wave throughout the 1990s. However, the success of bank mergers remains a continuous … matter of debate. In this paper we suggest a taxonomy as how to evaluate post-merger performance on the basis of cost … CE levels above the average of non-merging banks. Second, banks must exhibit CE changes between merger and evaluation …

directions since then: Italy privatized its publicly-owned banks while Germany has maintained a large share of state …

socio-economic outcomes and country case studies of Austria, Germany and Switzerland, which illustrate the political …

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 …