Cross Border Workshop University of Connecticut On Laser

Extending Industry Specialization through Cross-Border Acquisitions

We investigate the role of industry specialization in horizontal cross-border mergers and acquisitions. We find that acquirers from more specialized industries in a country are more likely to buy foreign targets in countries that are less specialized in these same industries. The role of industry specialization in foreign acquisitions is more prevalent when contracting inefficiencies and export...

Medical Sociology as a Heuristic Instrument for Medical Tourism and Cross-Border Healthcare; Comment on “International Patients on Operation Vacation – Perspectives of Patients Travelling to Hungary for Orthopedic Treatments”

In this commentary, we establish a relationship between medical sociology and the study of medical tourism and cross-border healthcare by introducing Ronald Andersen’s behavioral model of healthcare use, and linking this model to the recent empirical study of Kovacs et al. on patients travelling to Hungary for orthopedic treatment. Finally, we plead for more measurement in the field of patient ...

Extending Industry Specialization, Intangibles, and Cross-Border Acquisitions

We investigate the role of industry specialization in cross-border acquisitions. We find that acquirers from more specialized industries in a country are more likely to buy foreign targets in countries that are less specialized in these same industries. The magnitude of this specialization effect is large with 14.6% more deals when the difference in industry specialization between two countries...

Reflections on Health Tourism and Cross-Border Health Care

Abstracts with Program Triassic-jurassic Non-marine Boundary Events in the Newark, and Hartford Basins (new Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts), Eastern United States

S WITH PROGRAM TRIASSIC-JURASSIC NON-MARINE BOUNDARY EVENTS IN THE NEWARK, AND HARTFORD BASINS (NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA, CONNECTICUT, AND MASSACHUSETTS), EASTERN UNITED STATES 2 Field Workshop June 7-12, 2002 Christopher A. McRoberts Department of Geology, State University of New York at Cortland Paul E. Olsen Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University