In this comprehensive review of ex-post merger studies price effects of horizontal transactions are evaluated. By combining and further analyzing the results of 52 retrospective studies on 82 mergers or merger-like transactions it can be shown that the industry alone is no strong indication for...

The goal of this path-breaking volume is to relativize the experience of Japanese industries in terms of both location and time, exploring its similarities and differences with other countries and its unique relationship with the global standard of company performance set by US firms. Yongdo Kim...

Chapter 1 The Economics of Interfirm Networks: Main Issues -- Part 1: Structure and Evolution of Interfirm Networks -- Chapter 2 Buyer-Supplier Networks and Aggregate Volatility -- Chapter 3 Community Structure of a Large-scale Production Network in Japan -- Chapter 4 Interfirm Networks in...