Durch die empirische kapitalmarktorientierte Untersuchung ("event study") von 419 Übernahmen und Fusionen im Zeitraum von 1996 bis 2001 wird die Entwicklung von Börsenkursen bei Ankündigung und Durchführung von Transaktionen auf dem deutschen Markt für Unternehmenskontrolle analysiert....

Formen und Bedeutung von M&A -- Konsolidierungs- und M&A-Wellen -- Finanzanalysten und Strategiebildung von Unternehmen -- Auswirkungen der Analystenbewertungen auf dem Kapitalmarkt -- Empirische Untersuchungen zur Existenz von Konsolidierungswellen und Prognoseverhalten von Analysten.

This paper focuses on how corruption affects an important internationalization behavior of firms: the extent of control - wholly owned subsidiary or equity participation - exercised by firms involved in cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Recently, scholars have recommended studying the...

This article analyses the performance and value creation of the glamorous operations of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the telecommunications sector, trying to understand if the glamour company's M&A operations conduct to the stockholder wealth maximization, and the role of acquirer's...

This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups. We apply this theory to identify the effects of prohibiting start-up acquisitions. We differentiate between killer acquisitions (when the incumbent does not commercialize the acquired start-up's...

We analyse the effects of monetary policy on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the United States, both on the aggregate and the firm level. We find that aggregate M&A activity decreases significantly following a monetary policy shock. The aggregate results are confirmed by an analysis...