acquisition

We examine coordinated effects of mergers in the retail market for gasoline during the period 1986-2002. Despite significant changes in market concentration and many factors conductive to coordination, the empirical analysis shows that the level of coordination is low. In addition, statistical tests reject the hypothesis that mergers and acquisitions ...

This paper evaluates partial acquisition strategies. The model allows for buying a share of a firm before the actual acquisition takes place. Holding a share in a competing firm before the acquisition of another firm, outsider-toehold, eliminates the insiders' dilemma, i.e. profitable mergers do not occur. This strategy may thus ...

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and corporate restructuring are a big part of the corporate finance world. Every day, Wall Street investment bankers arrange M&A transactions, which bring separate companies together to form larger ones. When they're not creating big companies from smaller ones, corporate finance deals do the reverse and ...

A quick scan of the business press over the years would reveal one common thread of business activity – mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Companies for a long time now have readily adopted this route to business domination and market leadership. Examples of glorious and often controversial M&As are galore in ...

A firm with multiple partners should consider several vitally important items when developing an expansion plan that involves mergers or acquisitions of accounting practices. Below are nine key things to initially keep in mind. By: Joel L. Sinkin and Terrence E. Putney, CPAs, Accounting Transitions Solutions, LLP, Merger and Transition Consulting Exclusively ...