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National Champion Versus Foreign Takeover

Südekum, Jens - 2008

Governments in several countries have recently spent considerable effort to defend domestic firms against acquisition attempts from abroad and instead favoured mergers among national firms. In this paper we offer an explanation why globalization can reinforce the case for promoting national...

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National Champion versus Foreign Takeover

Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We analyze an oligopolistic market where a domestic and a foreign firm are engaged in a takeover battle for a domestic competitor. Any merger or acquisition (M&A) must be approved by a welfare maximizing domestic competition agency which may or may not be prone to "economic patriotism". A...

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National Champion Versus Foreign Takeover

Südekum, Jens - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2008

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The Belgian production network 2002-2012

Dhyne, Emmanuel; Magerman, Glenn; Rubínova, Stela - 2015

transactions between enterprises in the Belgian economy. The dataset spans Primary Industries, Manufacturing, Utilities, Market … etc. As a simple example of the potential of this dataset, we evaluate the position of enterprises in the Belgian network … weighted distance to final demand, of the average enterprise is 1.6, ranging between 1 and 9.5. While only 5 % of enterprises …

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