The number of cross-border mergers and acquisitions has increased lately. Along with these the possibilities to commit … during the stages of the acquisition process. Based on the international practices the results show that cross-border mergers … practices. Many researchers have tried to explain the poor performance of the acquisition process and the fact that many deals …

if global banks improve their performance due to their cross-border activity, whether we speak about mergers or … acquisitions of local banks or we speak about other ways a global bank begins the activity in a different country. As methodology …

This paper investigates the determinants of European cross-border M&As using a large database. Specifically, we … which can be changed through a merger or acquisition and those which cannot be altered and are more related to the …

horizontal merger activity. We propose a theoretically-backed methodological approach to classify mergers that yields more … information on merger types and merger effects, and that can, moreover, distinguish between mergers characterized largely by … collusion-based synergies and mergers characterized largely by efficiency-based synergies. Crucial to the proposed measurement …