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- Hospital Integration and Vertical Consolidation: An Analysis of Acquisitions in New York State
- While prior studies tend to view hospital integration through the lens of horizontal consolidation, this paper provides an analysis of its vertical aspects. It examines the effect of hospital acquisitions in New York State on the distribution of market share for major cardiac procedures across providers in target markets. It...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Mergers & Acquisitions: The Consolidation Chase
- This report considers two aspects affecting M&A: the headline grabbing, mega-mergers and the no less significant convergence acquisition of strategic targets. The study evaluates likely patterns in Merger and Acquisition and identifies the "crouching tigers and hidden dragons" waiting to pounce on the susceptible. It concludes with a review of...
- White papers 2005-04-26
- Industry Consolidation And Price-Cost Margins
- The U.S. pulp and paper industry has experienced an increasing degree of consolidation through a series of mergers and acquisitions. Based upon a structure conduct-performance model and using panel data for the pulp, paper, and paperboard sectors from 1970 to 1997, this paper investigates the effect of industry structure on...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- IBM Acquires Indian Outsource Provider: First in a Wave of Consolidations in the Business Process Outsourcing Sector?
- IBM's acquisition of Indian Outsource Provider is the largest deal of its kind in India's technology services industry. This deal means that Business Process Outsourcing BPO companies need to be part of a bigger outfit according to the wire service. Indeed, a number of experts believe this deal will touch...
- White papers 2004-04-08
- Consolidation in the European Insurance Industry: Do Mergers and Acquisitions Create Value for Shareholders?
- The objective of this paper is to determine whether Mergers and Acquisitions M&As in the European insurance market create value for shareholders by studying the stock price impact of M&A transactions on target and acquiring firms. The stock price effects are measured using a standard market model event study analysis....
- White papers 2004-01-08
- Industry Costs And Consolidation: Efficiency Gains And Mergers In The Railroad Industry
- Partial deregulation of the railroad industry has substantially eased regulatory impediments to consolidation. Since partial deregulation, there has been a massive consolidation of firms in the railroad industry, which has been premised on efficiency gains, network rationalization, and service quality. The paper focuses on efficiency gains. It develops and estimates...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- After WorldCom: How Much Consolidation Can U.S. Telecom Regulators Permit?
- WorldCom's recent bankruptcy has likely set the stage for a new round of telecom industry mergers that will test the long-standing competition policies of U.S. regulators.
- White papers 2003-05-15
- After WorldCom : How Much Consolidation Can U.S. Telecom Regulators Permit?
- The article explains how much industry consolidation can telecom regulators permit without significantly impairing competition? It recognize that regulators will judge any merger based upon the relevant facts but, in general, it suspect the answer may prove to be "more than you might think," -- especially if the "failing firm"...
- White papers 2003-05-15
- After WorldCom: How Much Consolidation Can U.S. Telecom Regulators Permit?
- WorldCom's recent bankruptcy has likely set the stage for a new round of telecom industry mergers that will test the long-standing competition policies of U.S. regulators. As Federal Communications Commission FCC told Congress that It is difficult to imagine the industry stabilizing without some modest and prudent restructuring. With new...
- White papers 2003-05-15
- Consolidation and Efficiency in the Financial Sector: A Review of the International Evidence
- This paper reviews the critical work that covers the main sectors of the financial industry (commercial and investment banks, insurance and asset management companies) in the major industrialized countries over the last twenty years, searching for common patterns that transcend national and sectoral peculiarities. But there is little evidence that...
- White papers 2003-01-10
- Merger, Consolidation, And Termination
- The contemporary business era is the age of corporate restructuring. The avenues available for reorganization include merger, consolidation, and purchase of another corporation’s assets. The paper examines dynamics of these strategies and discusses issues involved therein.
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- 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 to paper to telecommunications. As the credit professional knows, mergers of domestic companies may mean the elimination of the target of company's credit...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- 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 branching has enabled this consolidation, but specific characteristics of banks that engage in mergers reflect the regulatory process and market structure, as well as...
- White papers 2002-12-01
- Consolidation in the U.S. Property/Casualty Industry: An Update
- The report believes that there are several reasons for the decline in property/casualty insurance merger activity during 2001, including changes in macroeconomic conditions and industry fundamentals. The report also believe that this slowdown reflects recognition by more insurance organizations, due in part to a number of recent mergers that have...
- White papers 2002-02-19
- Cooperating Over Competition
- Within and throughout industries, there is clear evidence of a uniform consolidation pattern: Market fragmentation is followed by a potent wave of consolidation as companies strive to get bigger. Mergers decline once a certain degree of concentration has been reached. At that point, businesses focus on their core competencies until...
- White papers 2001-07-01
- Bank Consolidation and Consumer Loan Interest Rates
- The recent wave of bank mergers has raised concern with its effect on competition. This paper examines the influence of concentration and merger activity on consumer loan interest rates. It uses Bank Rate Monitor, Inc. survey data on loan rates quoted weekly by large commercial banks in ten major U.S....
- White papers 2000-10-01
- What Does Industry Consolidation Mean for a Company’s Value?
- Merger mania has clearly captured the American business scene. The total dollar value offered in net merger and acquisition announcements has increased from leaps and bounds. But a question which arises is that what does industry consolidation mean to the owner of a privately owned business? The list of industries...
- White papers 2000-02-01
- Banking Industry Consolidation: Financial Attributes of Merging Banks
- The author develops statistical models that relate the incidence of mergers and consolidations to financial characteristics of banks. Those models are then used to predict the likelihood of an institution being a target bank or an acquirer in a merger or consolidation over a two-year horizon. The study concludes with...
- White papers 1996-12-01
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- Global giant looks at big picture during downturn
- Cushman & Wakefield president and CEO, Bruce Mosler, will tell you the firm doesn't "aspire to be all things to all people," and in a consolidating commercial real estate industry, he remains confident and patient with the global giant's growth plan. After an active year that saw more...
- Articles 2008-07-16
- 2008 M&A Activity in the Debt Collection Industry on Target to Exceed 2007 Results Despite Overall Global Decline in M&A
- ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The combined deal value of mergers and acquisitions in the debt collection / accounts receivable management ARM industry could exceed last year's US$1.65 billion, according to Kaulkin Ginsberg, the leading strategic advisor to the industry. Despite the fact that only five M&A transactions closed...
- Articles 2008-07-09
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