Based on empirical studies and theoretical evidence, the paper investigates the relationship between mergers and … the number of mergers and acquisitions, the research results suggest that, for the market and period considered, one way …

Purpose: Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have become a popular vehicle for domestic as well as international companies …

differentiated products mergers: the Almost Ideal demand System (AIDS), logit, linear, and log-linear (constant elasticity). …

The research assesses how the two Big Eight mergers of 1989 affected the market for audit services. A data set of 1 …,978 firms over a 12-year period is used to test four theories of how the mergers could have affected competition and consumer … welfare. The study finds that the mergers reduced the marginal costs of auditing large clients. There is no evidence that the …

effects of concern. This paper analyzes mergers in randomly generated Cournot and Bertrand Industries to ascertain the … incremental effect of the mergers on the profitability of entry, and determine the net effects on prices welfare of the mergers …

for a policy aimed at discouraging domestic mergers. This implicitly assumes that the tariff in question is sufficiently … merger more profitable. Hence, trade liberalization will not necessarily reduce the profitability of domestic mergers. …

This paper investigates whether changes in Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) affect corporate investment … decisions. Using a sample containing forty nine changes in GAAP, I find that changes in accounting rules affect investment … decisions. I then examine two mechanisms through which changes in GAAP affect investment. First, I find that changes in GAAP …