With the advent of globalization and liberalization, the concept of M&As has become an integral part of the Indian economy. This phenomenon has had far reaching repercussions on Indian industrial milieu, its development and growth. The changing market conditions have brought very significant and...

Why do some firms grow faster than others? This question has become the focus of a large number of empirical studies in industrial organization, strategic management, and entrepreneurship since the publications of Gibrat (1931) and Penrose (1959). Using an unbalanced panel data set of 85 U.S....

M&A deals in the US are done mostly at the domestic level. We examine the M&A performance of US acquirers during 1991-2014 based on the enhanced innovative capacity afforded by cross-border deals. We find that US firms engaging in cross-border M&A have superior innovative capacity, which results...

Using a survey of 41,862 manufacturing firms in Indonesia from 2004 through 2013, this study documents that firms in provinces with deeper financial infrastructure exhibit better performance in general. A closer investigation however highlights that such findings are more pronounced for firms...

This paper aims at establishing the link between economic performance and financial stability in the European Union. We use the seminal framework – both in terms of variables and econometric method – of Beck and Levine (2004) to estimate this causal relationship, independently from but...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the link between the financial performance of Islamic finance and economic growth in all of Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Turkey and Saudi Arabia within the endogenous growth model framework. Design/methodology/approach - This study applied...

This study examines the relationship between access to finance and growth in sales for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Iran. Using data from 486 firms in five provinces, our findings indicate that external financing positively impacts sales growth for MSMEs. The results suggest...