The Rise of Merger and Acquisitions in the US: Consequences for Investment, Market Concentration, and Profits -An Integrated and a Macroeconomic Approach with Firm-Level Data
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Keywords
Mergers and Acquisitions; Market Concentration; Corporate Investment; Firm Growth;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
- G34 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance
- L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
- L40 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CFN-2025-02-24 (Corporate Finance)
- NEP-COM-2025-02-24 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-IND-2025-02-24 (Industrial Organization)
- NEP-MAC-2025-02-24 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-REG-2025-02-24 (Regulation)
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