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Merger Failure and Merger Profitability

The Journal of Industrial Economics, 1993
The focus of the paper is the effect of merger proposals on the expected profitability of the bidder and the target. We illustrate how an unsuccessful bid may increase the profitability of the target but reduce the profitability of the bidding firm, relative to the profitability of the firms before the merger offer.
Hviid, Morten, Prendergast, Canice
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Mergers and Merger Policy.

The Economic Journal, 1990
The impact of the merger, Alan Hughes take-over activity in the United Kingdom, Mervyn A.King the market for corporate control - the divestment option, Mike Wright et al mergers, take-overs and the enforcement of profit maximization, Dieter R.Helm shareholder wealth effects of UK take- overs - implications for merger policy, Julian R.Franks and Robert ...
Martin Slater, James Fairburn, John Kay
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When Is a Merger not a Merger?

1996
Activity in ultraluminous IR galaxies (ULIRGs) is thought to be triggered by mergers or close interactions. However, optical observations by Leech et al. (1994) suggest that many ULIRGs reside in undisturbed systems. We have obtained IR observations of the galaxy 1648+5447, which Leech et al. classified as ‘isolated and undisturbed’.
D. L. Clements, Amanda Baker
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Merger statistics and merger policy

Review of Industrial Organization, 1984
It is widely believed that the 1950 amendment of Section 7 of the Clayton Antitrust Act has diverted merger activity away from horizontal and into conglomerate forms. Examination of the Federal Trade Commission Large Merger Series replicates existing substantiation of this belief, but only up until 1968.
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Merger motives and merger prescriptions

Strategic Management Journal, 1990
Abstract The article surveys theories of merger motives and relates them to prescriptions for merger strategies. The theories of merger motives can be classified into seven groups. Those theories arguing with private information, managerial empire‐building or process influences are better supported by evidence than those tracing ...
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The Good Merger

New England Journal of Medicine, 2015
A good health care merger increases the value of care by reducing costs, improving outcomes, or both, enabling providers to generate and respond to competition. Such mergers generate “cognizable efficiencies” offsetting the potential harm of increased prices.
Leemore S, Dafny, Thomas H, Lee
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Newsvendor Mergers

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
This paper studies a merger between price-setting newsvendors in an oligopolistic market. It is well known that inventory pooling can greatly reduce inventory costs in a centralized distribution system because it helps reduce aggregate demand uncertainty.
Soo-Haeng Cho, Xin Wang 0016
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Growth by Merger

Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1954
Abstract * A review article on J. Fred Weston, The Role of Mergers in the Growth of Large Firms (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1953). Pp. xvi, 159. $3.50.
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A Theory of Mergers and Merger Waves

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
We consider a sequential merger game between Cournot firms with homogeneous product and quadratic cost function. A large slope of the marginal cost function or a small slope of inversemarket demand are both predicted to increase the incentive to merge.
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When is a merger not a merger?

English World-Wide. A Journal of Varieties of English, 1980
James Milroy, John Harris
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