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This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF. The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the IMF or IMF policy. Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to...
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This paper explores the procurement of public buildings in local authorities in the UK under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and its consequences for small and medium sized enterprises. Following an outline of the development of PFI in the UK, the paper explains the peculiarities of local...
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-making. Politicians could lose future payoffs if their locality merges with a larger counterpart, and they may sabotage the merger process …
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The debate about the amalgamation of local government units stems from the fact that their political borders (the institutional territory) do no longer coincide with the functional territory required for an efficient provision of most local public services. And both do not correspond with the...
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Verkaufsanstrengungen auf alle Produkte verteilen („Kollusion“) oder ob sie die Anzahl ihrer Produkte reduzieren („Fusion“). Wir zeigen, daß …, in denen Kooperation in Form von „Kollusion“ oder „Fusion“ für die kooperierenden Unternehmen profitabel ist. …
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Unternehmen vor der Fusion. Wir zeigen in dieser Arbeit, dass horizontale Fusion von Unternehmen aus diesen Gründen profitabel für … die fusionierenden Unternehmen und wohlfahrtserhöhend wirken kann, selbst dann, wenn es durch die Fusion keinerlei … verbesserte Informationsfluss zwischen Unternehmensteilen des durch die Fusion entstehenden Konzerns im Vergleich zum …
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(VF)À partir du cas d’une fusion entre une grande entreprise et une start-up dans le secteur des TIC, cet article met … amené les dirigeants à opter pour un troisième modèle de type symbiotique (phase 3). (VA)This article explores the merger of …
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In this study, we use firm-level data from the 1993 National Survey of Small Business Finances to test the hypothesis that banking consolidation has reduced the availability of credit to small businesses. We find that banks in markets where mergers have occurred are more likely than other banks...
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In this study, we examine unsuccessful takeover attempts for new evidence on whether mergers create or destroy value … literature on signaling by investigating whether a takeover attempt signals investors about the quality of firm management as … partially, but not completely, reversed by termination announcement returns, evidence that the merger proposal itself contains …
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China's short stock market history has already seen three merger waves, yet little is known of the performance drivers … measure. A larger acquirer size is associated with a larger takeover size, but a lesser target ratio is relative to the size …
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