A New Retrospective on Mergers

F. Scherer ()

Review of Industrial Organization, 2006, vol. 28, issue 4, 327-341

Abstract: This paper is based on my keynote address given at the 2006 International Industrial Organization Conference in Boston, April 8, 2006. I survey long-run trends in mergers, review the debate over the economic success of mergers generally, and examine the changing treatment that business schools have accorded mergers over the past five decades. A final section is a time series analysis of links at the U.S. macroeconomic level between changes in merger activity and labor productivity growth. Copyright Springer 2006

Keywords: business schools; efficiency; mergers; productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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