dependence reducing merger and acquisition patterns provides an important cornerstone of resource dependency theory and a basis … of our present knowledge of the aggregate industry-level merger and acquisition patterns. However, due to the predominant … focus on inter-industry merger and acquisition patterns in earlier research, much less is known as to whether the same logic …

means of mergers and acquisitions all over the world. One of the principle objectives behind the merger and acquisitions in … banking sector is to reap the benefits of economies of scale. Merger of SBI with its 5 associate banks namely State Bank of … Travancore(SBT) and Bharatiya Mahila Bank which took place on 1 April, 2017 is the largest merger in history of Indian Banking …

Conglomerate merger control went out of fashion in the United States and the European Union several decades ago. Both … assesses how this development has affected the US, EU and UK competition agencies’ approach to conglomerate merger control. It … merger control. While the US and UK authorities have not yet intervened against any conglomerate acquisitions in practice …

We directly study the information gathering process around a merger announcement by using the IP addresses accessing … Form 8-K filings for merger agreements. This allows us to measure who pays attention to the announcement, how attention … varies across mergers, and if this attention is related to merger outcomes. We link each IP address, when possible, to a …