quantify the domestic and cross-border effects of mergers, and to draw conclusions for the coordination of national merger … industries a merger approval policy based on domestic consumer surplus is too restrictive from the viewpoint of the neighboring … country. We also show that adopting a supra-national policy that approves a merger if and only if it increases the sum of …

information about suitable merger targets and to manage the merged corporation in case of an acquisition. Our results show that … high-powered incentives and, hence, a high personal income at the merger-management stage. We derive conditions under which …