This study tests the 'Market for Corporate Control' hypothesis in a small open economy. The results appear to favour rejection of this hypothesis indicating that acquisitions have not been driven by managerial-disciplinary motives. Moreover, it is found that a logit model outperforms other...

The paper reports an investigation of the relationship between business-cycle volatility and economic growth in the European Union before (EU-15) and after broadening (EU-25) using cross-sectional models. Results based on the superiority of the pseudo-likelihood ratio test as a more reliable...