merger control activity across all the sectors, but banking and manufacturing, tend to be most active in terms of merger and … merger control and how the competition authorities respond to crisis by showing flexibility in merger control. The present … from both sides of the Atlantic. The article concludes by contemplating how merger control can be a constructive instrument …

Market reaction to mergers and acquisitions is a popular research topic in finance. It has been well documented in …

We analyze a large merger in the Dutch banking market during the financial crisis using disaggregated data. Based on a … merger simulation model, we evaluate merger-induced changes in the interest rates for savings accounts. We find that the …

Regretful merger arbitrageurs may rush to sell target stocks for ongoing mergers and acquisitions when they expect a …. For ongoing mergers and acquisitions, we find a negative relation between the takeover premium and the target stock price … crash risk. The channel goes through an opinion divergence among arbitrageurs on the deal’s success rate. When the takeover …

We exploit the staggered initiation of merger and acquisition (M&A) laws across countries as a plausibly exogenous … shock to the threat of takeover to examine whether the market for corporate control has a real effect on firm-level stock … suggests that an active takeover market has a disciplining effect on managerial bad news hoarding and leads to lower future …