the German Reorganisation Act (UmwG). A merger passed at the General Annual Meeting will not move forward as long as any …

The recent merger between US Airways and American Airlines was approved by federal and state antitrust authorities … anticompetitive effects from this merger. The economics literature offers many reasons why such stock-market event studies should not … unrelated to competitive harms, such as when a merger changes expectations that one or more rivals will be “in play” (i.e., a …

The paper examines the returns to shareholders of acquiring companies in India during the period 2003-08. The abnormal …

The impact of the announcement of a takeover bid has been widely tested in foreign literature. Therefore, the main goal … of this paper is to research the impact of the announcement of a takeover bid on the share price movements in the … takeover bid affects the share prices of the target company, which is consistent with the results of previous research …

Globalization and liberalization have led firms from emerging markets like India to become more aggressive and opt for …

There is a growing concern that U.S. merger control may have been too lenient, but empirical evidence remains limited … reviewing the use and challenges of event studies in merger analysis, I use a novel application of Hoberg-Phillips (2010, 2016 ….S. mergers between 1997 and 2017. I document that following a merger announcement, the most likely competitors experience on …

obtain abnormal returns that are statistically significant after the announcement of the M&A. However, when the merger is not …