We analyze why some merger and acquisitions (M&A) deals are withdrawn paying particular attention to the economic …

The paper further contributes to our understanding about the role of societal trust in influencing mergers outcome …. Using a large sample of cross-border mergers across 56 countries between 1985 and 2014, we show that, conditional on … announcement of cross-border mergers, larger differences of societal trust between acquirer and target countries increase the …

year to year. In this paper, I establish four key facts about the dynamic patterns of cross-border mergers and the factors … that drive them: Cross-border mergers come in waves that are highly correlated with business cycles. Most mergers occur … when both the acquirer and the target economies are booming. Merger booms have both an industry-level component …

We investigate the role of intellectual property rights protection in cross-border merger and acquisition (M … local intellectual property rights. Importantly, we find that intellectual property rights have an impact on merger activity … about the local protection of intellectual capital when considering foreign acquisitions, and care the most when the target …

-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As), and if their influence is different for developed and developing countries, and across …

Cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CBMAs) have long been used as an important strategy for firms' international …

This study shows that domestic mergers and acquisitions (M&A) were inhibited by the U.S.'s worldwide tax policy on …