international mergers and acquisitions, a key source of foreign direct investment, seemingly target in‐country firms that are at the …

This paper seeks to outline the driving forces behind the acceleration of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CBMAs … of favourable targets for mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Other forces are market drivers, industry-level drivers and … shows that European Union (EU) companies are the most significant target for UK companies followed by the USA and Canada. In …

We study the role of institutional investors in cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As). We find that foreign … hypothesis that foreign institutional investors act as facilitators in the international market for corporate control; they build …

investigates the effect of policy uncertainty on cross-border acquisitions. We find a significant monotonic relationship between …

This paper examines recent trends and drivers of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) which grew six-fold in …