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Utilitiy Mergers and Acquisitions: No Slam Dunk
It has been positively realized that the economies of scale are no longer the dominant rationale for energy industry mergers. While scale-based mergers may achieve one-ti...
Company: The Utilities Project
Date: January 2003 |
The Utilities Project |
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Winning Through Mergers In Lean Times
Since the end of the late 1990’s economic boom, there has been a massive decline in mergers and acquisition. Parllel to this decline has been a growing realization of ju...
Company: The Boston Consulting Group
Date: July 2003 |
The Boston Consulting Group |
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Mergers
Organizations merge and form a single entity to achieve economies of scale, widen their reach, acquire strategic skills, and gain competitive advantage. In a merger, ther...
Company: Arkansas State University
Date: January 2003 |
Arkansas State University |
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Cross-Border Bank Mergers: What Lures the Rare Animal?
Although domestic mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the financial services industry have increased steadily over the past two decades, international M&As were relatively...
Company: University of Kiel
Date: August 2001 |
University of Kiel |
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Why Merge?
It has been observed that mergers continue to grow at an ever increasing pace. The United States Federal Trade Commission reports that the number of filings in 1999 was a...
Company: Judith Kautz
Date: January 2003 |
Judith Kautz |
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Mergers In Durable Goods Markets With Rational Customers
Researches indicate that mergers in durable goods industries are less harmful to consumer welfare in the first few years following the merger than the mergers in non-dura...
Company: Social Science Electronic Publishing
Date: September 2001 |
Social Science Electronic Publishing |
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CEO Compensation And Bank Mergers
From the executive summary: ‘Recent bank mergers generally did not improve relative operating performance or produce positive abnormal returns to acquiring bank sharehold...
Company: Social Science Electronic Publishing
Date: February 2000 |
Social Science Electronic Publishing |
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HR Issues and Activities in Mergers and Acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions are increasingly being used by firms to strengthen and maintain their position in the market place. They are seen by many as a relatively fast an...
Company: Reed Elsevier
Date: July 2001 |
Reed Elsevier |
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Making Mergers More Successful
The cost of failed mergers is enormous. Many mergers fail because the human and cultural sides of integration are not managed as carefully as the financial and structural...
Company: Schmalensee Partners
Date: January 2003 |
Schmalensee Partners |
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The Effect Of The Big Eight Accounting Firm Mergers On The Market For Audit Services
From the executive summary: ‘The paper presents a research that assesses how, some years ago, the two Big Eight mergers affected the market for audit services. A data set...
Company: Social Science Electronic Publishing
Date: March 2000 |
Social Science Electronic Publishing |
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Sources Of Gains In Horizontal Mergers: Evidence From Customer, Supplier, And Rival Firms
The managers of firms undergoing horizontal mergers and acquisitions have anticipated improvements in production efficiency as a primary source of gains in the transactio...
Company: Social Science Electronic Publishing
Date: May 2003 |
Social Science Electronic Publishing |
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Mergers
A merger is a transaction that results in a wholly new organization formed due to the merging of two or more organization/s. There are three types of mergers viz. horizon...
Company: College of William & Mary
Date: January 2003 |
College of William & Mary |
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Big Media Mergers Raise Big Doubts
Merger is a transaction that results in the formation of a wholly new company. Several issues have to be considered before implementing the merger strategy. Avoidance of ...
Company: Washington Post
Date: May 2002 |
Washington Post |
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Economics Of Regulation: Mergers And Acquisitions
A merger is a transaction that results in a wholly new organization formed due to the merging of two or more organization/s. An acquisition is a transaction in which one ...
Company: Illinois State University
Date: January 2003 |
Illinois State University |
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Consolidation In US Banking: Which Banks Engage In Mergers?
The number of U.S. commercial banks has declined by some 40 percent since 1984, primarily through mergers of solvent institutions. The relaxation of legal impediments to ...
Company: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Date: December 2002 |
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis |
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Vertical Mergers
This presentation discusses about the vertical mergers. It explains that vertical mergers involve the acquisition of a firm that can supply an input product (an upstream ...
Company: University of Pennsylvania
Date: January 2003 |
University of Pennsylvania |
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Bondholder Wealth Effects In Mergers And Acquisitions: New Evidence From The 1980s And 1990s
The economic magnitude and the significance of Mergers and Acquisitions activity have raised doubts over the authenticity of mergers. The paper explores the wealth effect...
Company: Social Science Electronic Publishing
Date: April 2002 |
Social Science Electronic Publishing |
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On Vertical Mergers And Their Competitive Effects
From the executive summary: ‘The new theories of vertical mergers have offered an insight into the vertical integration changes of an organization. The paper suggests tha...
Company: RAND
Date: January 2001 |
RAND |
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Piece By Piece
From the executive summary: ‘Mega-mergers require a completely different mindset and organizational strategy than do in-market, roll-up acquisitions by smaller players. H...
Company: CMP Media
Date: September 2003 |
CMP Media |
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Stress Points Along the Mergers, Acquisitions and Integration (MAI) Journey
This white paper discusses mergers and acquisitions journey It explains how mergers fail to dilever values, MAI projects. This paper also explores various actions to incr...
Company: Osti & Associates
Date: January 2003 |
Osti & Associates |
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Mergers & Acquisitions-Will Phillips
Most mergers and acquisitions add no value to the partners over time. Most top managers can readily cite examples of failures in this arena. They often use the term murde...
Company: QUALITY MANAGEMENT TO A HIGHER POWER
Date: January 2003 |
QUALITY MANAGEMENT TO A HIGHER POWER |
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The Silent Majority Fallacy Of The Elzinga-Hogarty Criteria: A Critique And New Approach To Analyzing Hospital Mergers
Mergers are considered beneficial for the growth and development of the organizations. However, too much dependency on merger activities can also hamper the success of th...
Company: Cory S. Capps, David Dranove, Shane Greenstein, and Mark Satterthwaite
Date: April 2001 |
Cory S. Capps, David Dranove, Shane Greenstein, and Mark Satterthwaite |
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Market Power Versus Efficiency Effects Of Mergers And Research Joint Ventures: Evidence From The Semiconductor Industry
The merger control authorities are in the process of approving a merger based on 'efficiency defense.' The important aspect for clearing mergers is that the efficiencies ...
Company: Klaus Gugler and Ralph Siebert
Date: February 2004 |
Klaus Gugler and Ralph Siebert |
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Mergers And Technological Change: 1885-1998
This paper analyzes mergers over the past century in a growth model that emphasizes technological change. It explains the positive relation between mergers and stock pric...
Company: Vanderbilt University
Date: August 2001 |
Vanderbilt University |
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The Market For Mergers And The Boundaries Of The Firm
Resorting to improved merger techniques doubles a company’s profitability. Mergers are the mechanisms that rebuild a company’s reputation. The adoption of merger techniqu...
Company: Social Science Electronic Publishing
Date: May 2004 |
Social Science Electronic Publishing |
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Network Externalities, Mergers, And Industry Concentration
This article examines how mergers affect performance in network industries. Network providers choose quality for communication within the provider’s owns network, quality...
Company: University of Florida
Date: May 2002 |
University of Florida |
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Horizontal Mergers And Exit In Declining Industries
Previous work on exit in declining industries has neglected mergers. This paper examines a simple model that predicts which declining industries experience horizontal mer...
Company: Claremont McKenna College
Date: January 2003 |
Claremont McKenna College |
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Mergers And Acquisitions In The Pharmaceutical And Biotech Industries
From the executive summary: 'The paper examines the determinants of M&A activity in the pharmaceutical-biotechnology industry and the effects of mergers using propensity ...
Company: Patricia M. Danzon, Andrew Epstein, and Sean Nicholson
Date: June 2004 |
Patricia M. Danzon, Andrew Epstein, and Sean Nicholson |
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Estimating The Efficiency Effects Of U.S. Telecommunications Mergers
From the executive summary: ‘The paper examines the effect of two horizontal mergers between U.S. telecommunication companies. The effects of the mergers are investigated...
Company: Social Science Electronic Publishing
Date: January 2003 |
Social Science Electronic Publishing |
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How Different Is The Long-Run Performance Of Mergers In The Telecommunications Industry?
Mergers play an important role in the financial sector of an organization. Many empirical studies have gone in understanding the concept of merger techniques. The focus o...
Company: Social Science Electronic Publishing
Date: January 2003 |
Social Science Electronic Publishing |
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Mergers: Look Before You Leap!
Today, more and more companies are resorting to the merging techniques. Mergers provide greater efficiency, eliminate duplicity, and provide a unified voice to the govern...
Company: The Forbes Group
Date: January 2003 |
The Forbes Group |
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Analysing the Competitive Effects of Mergers
This article deals in explaining the effects of mergers. The merger controls recognize that it may be preferable, on occasion, to prevent the acquisition of market power ...
Company: Compecon
Date: January 2003 |
Compecon |
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Valuation Contests In Private Bank Mergers
Bank reorganizations, including "phantom mergers," may give rise to dissenters' rights for minority shareholders under both the state and federal banking systems. If mino...
Company: Fredrikson & Byron P.A.
Date: October 1999 |
Fredrikson & Byron P.A. |
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Theories Of Mergers And Tender Offers
This presentation highlights the theories of mergers. Mergers allow a reorganization of production processes so that plant scale may be increased to obtain economies of s...
Company: Pearson Education
Date: January 2003 |
Pearson Education |
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Braking The Merger Momentum: Reforming Corporate Law Governing Mega-Mergers
Mega merger signifies high stakes and large transactions involved. Some of these may be value decreasing in the long-run. The paper examines a legal reform that seeks to ...
Company: Social Science Electronic Publishing
Date: May 2000 |
Social Science Electronic Publishing |
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M&A: Back to Basics
At face value, FAS 141 and 142, the new purchase-accounting rules issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, would seem to be another blow to a mergers-and-acqui...
Company: CFO Publishing
Date: October 2002 |
CFO Publishing |
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The Effects Of Banking Mergers On Loan Contracts
This paper studies the effects of banking mergers on individual business borrowers. Using information on individual loan contracts between banks and companies, it analyze...
Company: American Finance Association
Date: January 2003 |
American Finance Association |
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A Side-Effect of the Mergers and Acquisitions and the Consolidation of Credit Departments
This article is about mergers and acquisitions of companies who are at a record pace. Every industry seems to be transforming through mergers and acquisitions, from food ...
Company: Blakeley & Blakeley
Date: January 2003 |
Blakeley & Blakeley |
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Short-Form Mergers In Delaware
The companies adapting to short-form merger tactics are gaining increased profitability. The paper scrutinizes the implications of the Delaware Supreme Court’s decision r...
Company: Marc I. Steinberg
Date: January 2003 |
Marc I. Steinberg |
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Winning Through Mergers in Lean Times: The Hidden Power of Mergers and Acquisitions in Periods of Below-Average Economic Growth
Companies that are avoiding mergers and acquisitions in the current economic slowdown may be missing a major strategic opportunity. According to the study described in th...
Company: The Boston Consulting Group
Date: July 2003 |
The Boston Consulting Group |
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