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Horizontal mergers and exit in declining industries
Filson, Darren; Songsamphant, Bunchon - 2001
Previous work on exit in declining industries has neglected mergers. We examine a simple model that predicts which declining industries experience horizontal mergers. Mergers are more likely if 1) market concentration is high; 2) the inverse demand curve is steep at high levels of output and...
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The role of technology in M&As: a firm-level comparison of cross-border and domestic deals
Frey, Rainer; Hussinger, Katrin - 2006
Technological change is often hypothesized as one of the main drivers of merger activities. This paper analyzes the role of technology in mergers and acquisitions (M&As) at the firm level. Based on a newly created data set that combines financial information and patent data for public limited...
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Did Concentration on Core Competencies Drive Merger and Acquisition Activities in the 1990s? Empirical Evidence for Germany
Hussinger, Katrin - 2005
In the context of increasing globalization of markets, merger and acquisition activities in the 1990s are said to be driven by reorganization processes with respect to concentration on firms? core competencies in order to increase or maintain market power in international markets. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297448
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Horizontal Mergers, Investments and Industry Evolution
Li, Dongxu - 2021
Do horizontal mergers shape the way an industry evolves? I answer this question by investigating the non-merging rivals’ investments. Based on the stylized fact that the rivals’ performance on average declines in the three years following horizontal mergers, I find the rivals become more...
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Absorptive capacity and post-acquisition inventor productivity
Hussinger, Katrin - 2010
Inventors often experience a low productivity after their company has been subject to a merger or acquisition (M&As). It is of central managerial interest to identify factors facilitating the integration of new inventive staff and thereby counteracting innovation declines after M&As. This paper...
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Absorptive capacity and post-acquisition inventor productivity
Hussinger, Katrin - 2010
eine geringe Produktivität der bei der Fusion übernommen Erfinder in den unmittelbaren Folgejahren. Aus diesem Grund ist es …, die Produktivität der akquirierten Erfinder in den Jahren unmittelbar nach der Fusion zu erhöhen. Absorptionsfähigkeit … nach einer Fusion den Arbeitgeber wechseln können, zeigen, dass die Produktivität der übernommenen Erfinder, gemessen in …
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Horizontal mergers, firm heterogeneity, and R&D investments
Matsushima, Noriaki; Satō, Yasuhiro; Yamamoto, Kazuhiro - 2009
We investigate the incentive and the welfare implications of a merger when heterogeneous oligopolists compete both in process R&D and on the product market. We examine how a merger affects the output, investment, and profits of firms, whether firms have merger incentives, and, if so, whether...
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Horizontal Mergers, Firm Heterogeneity, and R&D Investments
Matsushima, Noriaki - 2009
We investigate the incentive and the welfare implications of a merger when heterogeneous oligopolists compete both in process R&D and on the product market. We examine how a merger affects the output, investment, and profits of firms, whether firms have merger incentives, and, if so, whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156465
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Acquisitions, markups, efficiency, and product quality : evidence from India
Stiebale, Joel; Vencappa, Dev - 2016
This paper uses a rich panel data set of Indian manufacturing firms to analyze the effects of domestic and international acquisitions on various outcomes at target firm and product level. We apply recent methodological advances in the estimation of production functions together with information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548253
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Evidence for the effects of mergers on market power and efficiency
Blonigen, Bruce A.; Pierce, Justin R. - 2016
Study of the impact of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on productivity and market power has been complicated by the difficulty of separating these two effects. We use newly-developed techniques to separately estimate productivity and markups across a wide range of industries using detailed...
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