. Numerous other jurisdictions lack a formal merger control mechanism, but reserve the right to review and challenge mergers …More than ninety jurisdictions have some form of merger control regime under their antitrust or competition laws … approaches to merger analysis across jurisdictions, one sees many commonalities, but also some important areas of variation. The …

and targets and use appropriate difference-in-difference estimation methods to single out the causal effect of mergers on … merger targets between 1990 and 2009. We use different matching techniques to construct separate control groups for acquirers … R&D growth and intensity. We find that target firms substantially decrease their R&D efforts after a merger, while the R …

The Intercontinental Exchange's current attempted acquisition of NYSE-Euronext is the third takeover proposal in as …

attention, and scholarly work on their effects on unilateral conduct is beginning to accumulate, merger control issues have been …, including mergers, are likely to affect market conditions; and decision-making.The article demonstrates how such algorithms can … algorithms. These findings are then translated into merger policy. Algorithms are shown to affect substantive as well as …

This paper provides empirical evidence on the relationship between cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and … 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 …

of mergers and acquisitions around the world …This paper studies the relationship between collective bargaining and mergers and acquisitions activity in 46 countries … from the early 1990s. We find that the frequency and volume of mergers and acquisitions within industries increase in …