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- Elena Cefis & Orietta Marsili & Hans Schenk, 2009. "The effects of mergers and acquisitions on the firm size distribution," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 19(1), pages 1-20, February.
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Keywords
firm size distribution; Mergers and Acquisitions; firm entry and exit; industry concentration;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
- L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance
- D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Theory
- C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2007-05-19 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-CSE-2007-05-19 (Economics of Strategic Management)
- NEP-ENT-2007-05-19 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-MIC-2007-05-19 (Microeconomics)
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