Merger deals are one of the most important business strategies which can change the company value dramatically. Mergers … analyze merger activities during economic crisis periods, as it was in Greece recently. This paper explores the accounting … for one year before and after the merger. The analysis of Greek listed companies that comprise the final sample is …

the level of networks, applications, and services. The paper examines bundling, differentiation, alliances, and merger …

I conduct an event study on the proposed $26.5 billion merger between Sprint and T-Mobile. Positive and statistically … and Verizon is consistent with a market power interpretation of the merger. AT&T's returns appear unaffected by news of …

on the claims of the parties that “immense” merger efficiencies would overwhelm any apparent losses of competition than … companies based their “economic model” of the merger on estimates of efficiencies on AT&T's “engineering model”, without …

following a merger. No merger should be unconditionally cleared if it involves a large amount of users' data. The chapter …

Should internet era merger policy differ from industrial era merger policy? Platform ecosystems rely on economies of … traditional merger policy tools. This paper examines the acquisition strategies of the five major U.S. platforms—Google, Amazon …, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft— since their inception. We discuss the main merger and acquisition theories of harm and how …

Merger value is frequently evaluated in single market contexts without considering possible gains stemming from firms … multimarket firms create incremental value. We establish a simple theoretical model that determines merger value in a multimarket … firm environment. The model enables us to derive merger values as being independent of post-merger market shares, but …

We examine how a downstream merger affects input prices and, in turn, the profitability of a such a merger under … unions organising workers. If the input suppliers are plant-specific, we find that a merger is more profitable than in a … take part in a merger than being an outsider. For firm-specific input suppliers, on the other hand, results are reversed …

interaction between firms in a general equilibrium setting). In terms of economic importance, the dominant merger wave variable is … a positive global-all effect, indicating that M&A waves are an economy-wide, global phenomenon. Country-specific merger …