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Journal of Political Economy, 2018 This paper argues incumbent firms may acquire innovative targets solely to discontinue the target’s innovation projects and preempt future competition. We call such acquisitions “killer acquisitions.” We develop a model illustrating this phenomenon. Using pharmaceutical industry data, we show that acquired drug projects are less likely to be developed ...
Cunningham, C M, Ederer, F, Ma, S
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Bootstrapping language acquisition [PDF]
Cognition, 2017 The semantic bootstrapping hypothesis proposes that children acquire their native language through exposure to sentences of the language paired with structured representations of their meaning, whose component substructures can be associated with words and syntactic structures used to express these concepts. The child's task is then to learn a language-
Abend, Omri +4 more
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Artificial Intelligence, 2017 Constraint programming is used to model and solve complex combina- torial problems. The modeling task requires some expertise in constraint programming. This requirement is a bottleneck to the broader uptake of constraint technology. Several approaches have been proposed to assist the non-expert user in the modelling task. This paper presents the basic
Bessiere, Christian +3 more
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Rivals’ Reactions to Mergers and Acquisitions [PDF]
, 2016 Mergers and acquisitions research has principally focused on attributes of the acquiring firm and post-acquisition outcomes. To extend our knowledge, we focus on external factors, in particular rival responses, and explore when and how rivals respond to ...
Brymer, Rhett +4 more
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Reports Of Conferences, Institutes, And Seminars [PDF]
, 2016 This quarter\u27s column offers coverage of multiple sessions from the 2016 Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L) Conference, held April 3–6, 2016, in Austin, Texas.
Blythe, K. +6 more
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Lexical acquisition through acquisition order [PDF]
, 2013 It is often noted in the literature that typical instances of categories denoted by lexical items are acquired earlier than atypical instances. Yet, a line of empirical studies that were left relatively unnoticed provide evidence to an additional generalization.
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Investigating the Integration of Acquired Firms in High-technology Industries: Implications for Industrial Policy [PDF]
, 2003 Acquisition activity persists despite evidence that acquisitions do not improve firm performance. Further, government policy toward the defense industry has advocated consolidation in the name of nominal cost savings.
Driessnack, John D., King, David R.
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Corporate Acquisitions and Firm-level Uncertainty: Domestic versus Cross-Border Deals [PDF]
, 2020 This paper studies the impact of corporate acquisitions on the uncertainty faced by acquiring firms. We use data for UK public companies from 2004 to 2017 and employ a matching estimator combined with difference-in-differences to control for the ...
Bai, Y., Girma, S., Riaño, A.
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An Analysis of Chinese acquisitions of Made in Italy firms in the luxury sector [PDF]
, 2014 Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) from emerging economies has begun to increase significantly and has been growing at a faster pace than Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from the developed world.
Brennan, Louis, Vecchi, Alessandra
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HELIN Acquisitions Manual [PDF]
, 2008 HELIN Acquisitions Manual - 2007-2008 ...
HELIN Consortium. Acquisitions Affinity Group
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