We examine the relations between recent board declassifications, takeover activity and takeover gains over the period 2003-2014. We report that firms that declassified their boards in the previous five years are more likely to be the target of a takeover compared to firms that remain classified....

Negotiations are of increasing importance in highly regulated sectors, particularly in network industries such as telecommunications and transport. Negotiating partners in these markets are often not equal with regard to their various sources and instruments of power. This analysis shows that...

1. Support-bargaining and the evolution of human societies -- 2. Money and money-bargaining -- 3. Macroeconomics and money-bargaining -- 4. Evolutionary economics -- 5. The evolution of money-bargaining -- 6. The state and money-bargaining -- 7. Support-bargaining, credit and confidence -- 8....