Table of Contents:
  • Mergers and economic performance in the UK : a survey of the empiricalevidence, 1950-1990 / Alan Hughes
  • The market for corporate control :divestments and buy-outs / Mike Wright, Brian Chiplin, and SteveThompson
  • Shareholder wealth effects of UK take-overs : implicationsfor merger policy / Julian Franks and Robert Harris
  • European capitalmarkets and corporate control / Julian Franks and Colin Mayer
  • Corporate governance, take-overs, and the role of the non-executivedirector / Evan Davis and John Kay
  • The empirical analysis of marketstructure and performance / James Fairburn and Paul Geroski
  • Theevolution of merger policy in Britain / James Fairburn
  • Free trade incompanies : does nationality matter? / Leslie Hannah
  • European ornational? : the Community's new merger regulation / Matthew Bishop
  • Recent patterns of European merger activity / Paul Geroski andAnastassios Vlassopoulos
  • Continental mergers are different / EvanDavis, Graham Shore, and David Thompson
  • Appendix A: The Commission'smerger reports.