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Analysing the employment effects of mergers and acquisitions

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  • Lehto, Eero
  • Böckerman, Petri

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Volume (Year): 68 (2008)
Issue (Month): 1 (October)
Pages: 112-124

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  1. Ari Kokko & Bengt Söderlund & Patrik Gustavsson Tingvall, 2014. "Redirecting International Trade: Contracts, Conflicts, and Institutions," Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Department of Statistics and Economics, vol. 234(6), pages 688-721, November.
  2. Furlan, Benjamin & Oberhofer, Harald & Winner , Hannes, 2014. "A Note on Merger and Acquisition Evaluation," Working Papers in Economics and Finance 2014-2, University of Salzburg.
  3. Iulia Siedschlag & Ville Kaitila & John Mc Quinn & Xiaoheng Zhang, 2014. "International Investment and Firm Performance: Empirical Evidence from Small Open Economies," Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Department of Statistics and Economics, vol. 234(6), pages 662-687, November.
  4. Joachim Wagner, 2011. "Productivity and International Firm Activities: What do we know?," Working Paper Series in Economics 194, University of Lüneburg, Institute of Economics.
  5. Oberhofer, Harald, 2010. "Employment effects of acquisitions: Evidence from acquired European firms," Working Papers in Economics and Finance 2010-10, University of Salzburg.
  6. Hiroyuki Taguchi & Taichi Yanagawa, 2013. "The dynamic impacts of M&A on employment in Japan," Journal of Management and Governance, Springer, vol. 17(2), pages 511-533, May.
  7. Mareike Heimeshoff & Jonas Schreyögg & Oliver Tiemann, 2014. "Employment effects of hospital privatization in Germany," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer, vol. 15(7), pages 747-757, September.
  8. Bandick, Roger & Karpaty, Patrik, 2011. "Employment effects of foreign acquisition," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 20(2), pages 211-224, April.
  9. Mathieu Bunel & Richard Duhautois & Lucie Gonzalez, 2010. "Are Mergers and Acquisitions Accompanied by Increasing Recourse to THS employment? A French perspective," Economics Bulletin, , vol. 30(1), pages 614-623.
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