This paper examines the announcement period and the post acquisition gains of UK acquirers of unlisted targets that are subject to value-ambiguity. The evidence shows that target’s age, size, intangibility of assets, and investments can explain the variations in bidding firm’s abnormal...

In recent times the financial services industry has experienced a major transformation, in which markets and players have been globalised and consolidated. Certain financial centres have concentrated on financial firms and markets, engendering considerable research on the foundations of their...

This paper empirically examines social network explanations for migration decisions in the context of the German reunification. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we first show that the presence of family and friends in West Germany is an important predictor for the...

Recent US research has suggested that market expected returns have fallen. Most studies propose this fall in market expected returns occurred during the 1990’s. Our UK empirical analysis finds a fall in expected returns in the 1990’s for the market index, but, in general, this is not evident...

In this paper, we study an intertemporal maximization problem of an infinitely-lived individual who faces both labor income and asset return uncertainty. Given the growth rate of wage, the uncertainty of labor income is caused by the stochastic labor supply which is to be determined upon the...

This paper formulates a model to examine the effects of changes in tax-benefit policy on the behavior of divorced parents and the well-being of children in single-parent households. Noncustodial parents choose the level of a child support payment to transfer to custodians. These, in turn, decide...

The standard bargaining model predicts that falling international price competitiveness should exert downward pressure on wages, in addition to the effect of current unemployment. Cointegration results with aggregate British and German data confirm the model for the U.K., but fail to reveal an...

Today the United States is the last industrialised country that does not have a comprehensive system for the regulation of dismissals and redundancies. The relative neglect of dismissal protection can be attributed to the union-employer disputes over plant closures and redundancies. Initially US...

This paper examines the relationship between firm size, competitive strategy and performance, for the long-lived small firm in Scotland. It uses structural modelling to test the hypothesis that small firms need to remain small if they are to be long-lived. In a three-equation simultaneous model,...

In an OG model with competition à la Cournot, we show the existence of a stable 2-cylcle (in prices and employment levels) in the forward dynamics with learning.