This paper provides a systematic empirical analysis of the effects of merger and acquisition activity on profitability and firm-level employee remuneration in the UK, using a specially constructed database for the period 1979-91. It finds that both profitability and wages rise following...

This paper provides a systematic empirical analysis of the effects of merger and acquisition activity on profitability and firm level employee remuneration in the United Kingdom, using a specially constructed database for the period 1979-1991. It finds that both profitability and wages rise...

This paper studies the impact of corporate acquisitions - both domestic and cross-border - on the uncertainty faced by acquiring firms. We use data for UK publicly-listed firms from 2004 to 2017 and employ a matching estimator combined with difference-in-differences to control for the endogenous...