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Venture Capital Investments and Merger and Acquisition Activity Around the World

Phillips, Gordon M. - 2017

world. We find evidence of a strong positive association between VC investments and lagged M&A activity, consistent with the … engage in more deals. We also explore the effects of country-level pro-takeover legislation passed internationally (positive … post-law changes in VC activity. VC activity intensifies after enactment of country-level takeover friendly legislation and …

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The Impacts of Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures on Agribusiness and Resource Firms

Hudson, Darren - 2017

This research is an empirical study of effects of mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures (MAJV) on the acquiring and participating firms' long term ex-post performance and idiosyncratic risk. The results show that acquirers from the food and pharmaceutical industries enjoy positive abnormal...

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Deconstructing Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Scandals in Pharmaceutical Industry

Khan, Dr Hassaan - 2014

This study examines the role of mergers and acquisitions in offsetting adverse market reaction to corporate scandals and litigation on share price and therefore, shareholder wealth creation for pharmaceutical companies. Using a sample of 10 major pharmaceutical companies with financial data from...

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Mergers & Acquisitions and the Acquirer-Target Cultural Differences

Fong, Wai Ming - 2014

We investigate the impacts of cultural environment on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the U.S. To measure the cultural environment of a firm, we use several variables of cultural dimension widely adopted in the literature, such as the percentage of religious adherents and the percentage of...

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Do target-country legal institutions affect cross-border mergers and acquisitions? : a quantitative literature survey

Brada, Josef C.; Iwasaki, Ichirō - In: European journal of law and economics 55 (2023) 2, pp. 225-289

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Mergers and acquisitions across cultures

Ahmad, Muhammad Farooq; De Bodt, Eric; Bollaert, Helen - In: Finance : revue de l'Association Française de Finance 43 (2022) 3, pp. 37-117

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Merger or Acquisition? Introduction to the Handbook of Historical Economics

Bisin, Alberto; Federico, Giovanni - 2023

Handbook as a forceful argument in favor of a merger between the two disciplines rather than the acquisition of one by the … other; a merger which combines, notably, the detailed knowledge of historical sources, the capability of distilling complex …

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The Impact of Mergers on Performance in the US Telecommunications Industry, 1988 to 2001

Majumdar, Sumit K.; Moussawi, Rabih; Yaylacicegi, Ulku - 2012

telecommunications merger and acquisitions activity, and account for many mergers with huge welfare implications. The results of this …

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Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions : A Piece of the Natural Resource Curse Puzzle

Swart, Julia; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2009

We combine the resource curse literature with the literature on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) to investigate two hypotheses, namely (i) natural resource wealth: countries with a comparative advantage in natural resources attract more M&As in natural resource intensive sectors and...

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Mergers and acquisitions : current problems in perspective

Keenan, Michael (ed.); White, Lawrence J. (contributor) - 1982

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