enhances their post-acquisition green innovation performances. Our results also show an increase in green acquisitions after …-relevant sectors and countries with low environmental standards than their counterparts. However, green acquisitions after the Paris …

are not used in the market. We show that such "acquisitions for sleep" can occur if and only if the quality of a process …

Innovative startups are frequently acquired by large incumbent firms. On the one hand, these acquisitions provide an … startups just to "kill" their ideas, and acquisitions can erode incumbents' own innovation incentives. Our paper aims to assess … the net effect of these forces. To do so, we build an endogenous growth model with heterogeneous firms and acquisitions …

portfolio of productive assets through acquisitions and divestitures. They acquire assets with superior ESG performance and … assets with weaker ESG performance. Notably, our findings demonstrate that acquisitions are more effective than divestitures …

This paper explains why consolidation acquisitions occur in waves and it predicts the differing role each firm is … initial acquisition triggers a wave of follow-on acquisitions, where the process of asset accumulation by the consolidator is … accelerated since the value of follow-on acquisitions is enhanced by the more concentrated industry structure. An initial …

make acquisitions can significantly reduce their conditional probability of being taken over, largely through the impact …

, we find that the industry distribution is significantly different for failure and acquisitions. This calls for some kind …