Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2008 - This version: January 2008
By combining two large data sets (on international trade flows and cross-border mergers and acquisitions - M&As), we … interaction between firms in a general equilibrium setting). In terms of economic importance, the dominant merger wave variable is … a positive global-all effect, indicating that M&A waves are an economy-wide, global phenomenon. Country-specific merger …
