This paper presents some ideas about determinants of merger waves and some evidence on their effect on profitability … responsible for the latest wave. The impact of merger activities on profitability and employment growth are studied by using the … DOME database which has been built up at the Kiel Institute of World Economics. On average, performance of merging and non …

A new world order is taking shape as a result of the relative decline of the United States (US) and other Western … phenomena, attention is paid to the role of profitability as a driver of productivity and investment and global hegemony as a … driver of international resource transfers. Particular attention is paid to an empirical analysis of the profitability of the …

innovativeness and consequently competitiveness and profitability. Such business ventures, however, might be associated with huge … international R&D activities boost profitability. We employ a large data set of about 1300 firms from the German Community … Innovation Survey (CIS). The empirical results demonstrate that R&D location matters for profitability. Firms with both domestic …