Positive assortive merging

This paper addresses the following two questions: (i) Is there any evidence that firms, like human beings, prefer to partner with alike? (ii) Is there any relationship between the ex ante technological and product relatedness of merging parties and the postmerger performances? Using data of patent h...

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Main Author: Ornaghi, Carmine (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2009.
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