Mergers and Acquisitions Waves in India

What drives mergers and acquisitions waves in developing countries? Evidences from Iranian banking industry

M any Middle-East countries, like Iran, have dynamic banking industries and have observed merger and acquisitions (M&A) waves. M&A waves are usually defined in the developed world context and some of their main drivers were identified as: market timing, environment's shocks, merger manias, government regulation and regulatory, and technological changes. It has been discussed that merger waves ...

Analysis of Trends in Mergers and Acquisitions in India Analysis of Trends in Mergers and Acquisitions in India

what drives mergers and acquisitions waves in developing countries? evidences from iranian banking industry

m any middle-east countries, like iran, have dynamic banking industries and have observed merger and acquisitions (m&a) waves. m&a waves are usually defined in the developed world context and some of their main drivers were identified as: market timing, environment's shocks, merger manias, government regulation and regulatory, and technological changes. it has been discussed that merge...

Mergers and Acquisitions

 what a merger is and how it differs from an acquisition;  some of the reasons why companies merge;  the underlying merger rationales;  what a merger driver is;  what the primary merger drivers are;  the difference between horizontal integration, vertical integration and conglomeration;  the basic merger lifecycle and lifecycle phases;  some basic measures of success for mergers;  the ...

Complementarities in Mergers and Acquisitions

We examine theoretically and empirically the determinants of the degree of complementarity between bidders and targets in mergers and acquisitions. Our paper extends existing literature, which demonstrates that firms that have stronger complementarities are more likely to become merger partners, by addressing the heterogeneity in bidders’ and targets’ complementarity in observed acquisitions. O...