Purpose – The paper seeks to highlight the differences among EU countries in a series of institutional factors (e.g. enforcement, securities regulation, investor protection and ownership concentration) in order to test whether these differences are associated with the European variability in...

This paper provides a comprehensive descriptive analysis of the European market of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) between 1990 and 2017. We examine several features of the deal announcements in the region like: 1) completion; 2) method of payment; 3) geographical scope; 4) target's attitude; 5)...