's proposed acquisition of DoubleClick. According to the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Horizontal Merger …

A great merger wave occurring in the United States between 1897 and 1903 was the single most important event in a … that mergers matter with respect to the evolution of systems of ownership and control. Events occurring in the U.S. and … dispersed share ownership. The merger wave of 1897 to 1903 illustrates that surges in demand for shares founded upon optimistic …

market shares found in the Department of Justice's merger guidelines are unlikely to identify truly anticompetitive mergers …The market concentration doctrine predicts that a horizontal merger is more likely to have collusive, anticompetitive … effects the greater the merger-induced change in industry concentration. Since a collusive, anticompetitive merger generates …

This paper contributes to the current literature of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) by studying the existence of waves … errors (PCSE) is used, and the results are confirmed through a negative binomial panel data estimation …

in significant penalties. This issue of non-compliance has implications in the merger and acquisitions (M&A) context. In …

regime where widely-held public companies dominate. In the discourse, little has been said about the contribution of merger … British experience suggests that mergers matter with respect to the evolution of systems of ownership and control and that the … manner in which anti-competitive behaviour is regulated influences the extent to which transformative merger activity takes …

significant regulatory uncertainties. In the context of takeover antitrust reviews, we show that politically connected acquirers … pay a lower takeover premium to and share a smaller portion of the takeover gains with the targets, indicating that the …

these multi-sided companies along with each company's most important market segments. We then track their mergers and …

This paper examines US airline mergers between 1993 and 2018 and studies their impact on the labor market. Our … following the mergers. The effect is particularly salient among large-scale mergers involving major airlines and low cost … carriers. The results also suggest a negative short-term employment impact of mergers that varies by occupation types. Our …