This paper presents a model of takeover incentives in an oligopolistic industry, which,in contrast to previous … Bertrand competition if products are substitutes. Moreover, asproducts become closer substitutes, a takeover becomes more … Untersuchungen - sowohl die Gewinnzuwächse der an der Fusion beteiligten Firmen als auch die Gewinnveränderungen der …

diffusion across Japanese prefectures from 1982 to 2012, whereby an actual merger between two chains takes place in 2001. Given … performance dynamics evolve before and after the merger. In particular, we demonstrate that the performance dynamics for the … merged entity do not improve following the merger. …

This Paper presents a model of takeover incentives in an oligopolistic industry, which, in contrast to previous … application is to compare takeover incentives in a differentiated Cournot and Bertrand oligopoly model with linear demand and … under Bertrand competition if products are substitutes. Moreover, as products become closer substitutes, a takeover becomes …

incorporated in Nigeria under the Companies and Allied Matters Act [1990], which have undergone a merger or an acquisition process … the post merger and acquisition corporate entity. The evidence also shows that mergers and acquisitions provided only a …

This paper deals with the project of a merger between BAE systems and EADS, announced in September 2012 and finally … cancelled one month later. It investigates the rationale of the merger project and the reasons that explain its collapse. Our … first aim is to assess the importance - usually put forward in the literature - of the pre-merger phase in the success or …

adopt new strategies : merger, simple or mutual links of interoperability. We develop a model of industrial organization to … practice" of postmarkets incites them to accept this type of agreements. On the other hand, a merger between incumbent clearing … houses can occur under some conditions. The merger is beneficial to these last ones as well as to the investors, but it is …

structural approach to infer acquirers’ gains from merging by interpreting a merger as an auction. Using nonparametric methods …