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Purpose: Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have become a popular vehicle for domestic as well as international companies …
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In our sample of 1,937 US mergers (1995 to 2011), 8.4 percent of all targets received oers with negative premiums where …
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the form of mergers and acquisitions followed by the firms in the Indian pharmaceutical industry. The study found that …
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Imagine that you have reached the pinnacle of your career, and you are sitting in the driver’s seat of a multi-billion dollar enterprise. Business is good, sales are up, and the stock market responds to your company’s performance. In such circumstances, a chief executive officer (CEO) may...
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to assess the welfare implications of proposed mergers and partial divestitures. …
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Consolidation, Combination and Diversification (CCD’s) in the emerging globalized market leads to competition and escalating the monopoly power. Given the increasing liberalization of rules, regulations and law, a number of firms are going beyond national borders and making deals triumphant....
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removing the competition concerns that mergers can determine. …
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Previous research on the impact of currency risk on stock returns has failed to find a significant role for foreign exchange rates. This paper addresses several explanations of this finding with a unique dataset of U.S. firms that acquire targets in other countries. The dataset allows estimation...
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This aim of this paper is twofold. First it examines the determinants of acquisitions and divestitures of Dutch firms … in the period 1996-2004. Second, it investigates the impact of acquisitions and divestitures on the firm’s innovative … involved in acquisition activities than non-innovating firms, which suggests that acquisitions are a strategy to gain access to …
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This paper considers the possibility of monopolizing a three-firm industry through acquisition of rivals in the absence of the restrictions imposed by the antitrust authorities. The analysis is conducted in two models: a static and a dynamic model of monopolization by a single buyer. In contrast...
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