Tag: M&As

Is there “pandemic arbitrage”? In other words, are destinations, that are coping well with the pandemic, more favorable to FDI?

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Internationalization is a major strategic component of most business firms’ activities (Meilin, 1992), and key models of internationalization tend to describe it as taking place gradually and in distinct stages (Boisot and Meyer, 2008; Johanson & Vahlne, 1990; Meilin, 1992; Vernon, 1966). During their internationalization process, firms shift progressively from low involvement (e.g., exporting) to […]

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Chart of the Week April 8, 2022: US M&As and the Likelihood of Their Announcement

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Summary: Using data from a study about US mergers and acquisitions (M&A), this week’s chart shows that the probability of M&A announcement increases when the workforces of the merging firms have similar political ideologies. In the United States, the dominant way of classifying political ideology tends to be either liberalism or conservatism, which aligns with […]

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