The mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have evolved as most used and successful strategy of corporate restructuring. In …

removing the competition concerns that mergers can determine. …

-oriented international competition authority to control anti-competitive conduct and growth by mergers of large multi-national companies. …

productivity (TFP) growth. The impact of horizontal mergers on TFP growth is of particular interest. The number of proposed … horizontal mergers among U.S. firms totaled 28,818 from 1996 to 2005, while the number of U.S. Department of Justice … investigations of proposed mergers totaled 1,303 during the same time period. The impact of mergers upon total factor productivity …

We analyze a model of competition in non-linear pricing under complete information. Among the equilibria of the game …

merging and rival firms' stocks to quantify the profitability effects of mergers and merger control decisions. We back up our … mergers during the first investigation phase. Yet, they are on the whole ineffective or even detrimental when applied after … merging firms to rivals when mistakenly applied to pro-competitive mergers. …

Using a sample of 167 mergers during the period 1990-2002 involving 544 firms either as merging firms or competitors … case of anticompetitive mergers. …

We use a sample of 167 mergers during the period 1990-2002 involving 544 firms either as merging firms or competitors …. We contrast a measure of the merger’s profitability based on event studies with one based on accounting data. We find …