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| Title: | | Cross-border mergers and acquisitions and the role of trade costs |
| Authors: | | Hijzen, Alexander Görg, Holger Manchin, Miriam |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Citation: | | [Volume:] 52 [Issue:] 5 [Pages:] 849-866 [Journal:] European economic review : EER [ISBN:] 0014-2921 |
| Abstract: | | Cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have increased dramatically over the last two decades. This paper analyses the role of trade costs in explaining the increase in the number of cross-border M&As. In particular, we distinguish horizontal and non-horizontal M&As and investigate whether trade costs affect these two types of mergers differently. We analyse this question using industry data for 23 OECD countries for the period 19902001. Our findings suggest that while in the aggregate trade costs affect cross-border merger activity negatively its impact differs importantly across horizontal and non-horizontal mergers. The impact of trade costs is less negative for horizontal mergers, which is consistent with the tariff-jumping argument. |
| Subjects: | | Mergers and acquisitions International trade Trade costs Gravity FDI |
| JEL: | | F02 F15 F21 F23 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2007.07.002 |
| Document Type: | | Article |
| Appears in Collections: | | Economists Online
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