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Cross-border mergers and acquisitions have shown tremendous growth over time primarily due to a desire to circumvent tariffs and nontariff barriers arising from arms-length international trade and taxes; to obtain new options for financing; to access technology; and to distribute research and development costs over a broader base. Several factors put in place to moderate this growth include protecting key industries, limiting controlling interest levels, and restricting remittances of profits and dividends. This chapter focuses on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and their financial and economic (both macro and micro) underpinnings, which affect their direction and magnitude. In general terms, empirical analysis supports the fact that both a host country’s and the foreign country’s stock and bond prices are major causal factors that influence cross-border mergers and acquisitions.
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Vasconcellos, G.M., Kish, R.J. (2022). Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions. In: Lee, CF., Lee, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Finance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91231-4_43
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