We examine the effect of bilateral trust on cross‐border mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Using a large European M&A sample, we find that bilateral trust facilitates deal announcement and completion. Bidder and target bilateral trusts towards each other are both important for deal...

We use the unique setting of Malaysian mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity to test the effect of market-wide investor inattention when managers are attentive. During Ramadan, mainly Muslim investors are likely to be distracted while mainly non-Muslim managers are likely to be attentive and...

The paper further contributes to our understanding about the role of societal trust in influencing mergers outcome. Using a large sample of cross-border mergers across 56 countries between 1985 and 2014, we show that, conditional on announcement of cross-border mergers, larger differences of...

Economists have long recognized that competition and innovation interact as key drivers of economic growth (Schumpeter, 1943; Arrow, 1962; Aghion and Howitt, 1992). Acknowledging this, regulators carefully scrutinize competitive behaviors that potentially affect innovation incentives, in particular in...

Cross-border merger activity is growing in importance. We map the global trade network each year from 1989 to 2016 and compare it to cross-border and domestic merger activity. Trade-weighted merger activity in trading partner countries has statistically and economically significant explanatory...

This paper examines the relationship between employment protection legislation (EPL) and corporate payouts. Employees are corporate claimants who compete with shareholders to extract economic rents generated by the firm, so management is influenced by workforce power via the EPL framework in...

We examine whether the cultural orientation of target firms influences outcomes of international mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Prior research shows that the national culture of the acquiring firm country influences M&A, as well the distance between the acquiring and target country cultures....

We study international mergers and acquisitions from a cross-cultural perspective. We examine in particular (i) which types of cultures are more likely to carry out acquisitions in a different culture to their home society and (ii) which are more likely to complete deals. We use the culture...

In this paper, we examine the changes in the dependence structure of global stock markets amid the outbreak of COVID-19. We divide 56 stock markets into developed, emerging, and frontier markets and study their daily price data from October 15, 2019 to August 17, 2020 using the canonical vine...