We investigate the role of intellectual property rights protection in cross-border merger and acquisition (M … local intellectual property rights. Importantly, we find that intellectual property rights have an impact on merger activity …

&A database with information on patent applications. Within three years after a cross-border M&A, patent applications filed by the … merged entity increase by more than 30%. Splitting patent applications by the inventors country it is found that the positive … association with post-merger patenting is mainly driven by patents invented in the countries of the acquirers headquarter and its …

Technological change is often hypothesized as one of the main drivers of merger activities. This paper analyzes the … financial information and patent data for public firms in Europe as well as country level variables, we apply a structural model … to investigate technology-related motivations behind merger formation. Distinguishing between cross-border and domestic M …

Technological change is often hypothesized as one of the main drivers of merger activities. This paper analyzes the … financial information and patent data for public limited companies in Europe as well as country level variables, we apply a … structural model to investigate technology-related motivations behind merger formation. Distinguishing between cross-border and …

Technological change is often hypothesized as one of the main drivers of merger …