Do mergers lead to financial instability? How are shareholders'
interests best served? How significant a role do taxes play? What are
the implications for the structure and concentration of industry?
Mergers and Acquisitions, prepared in an nontechnical format, answers
these and other questions that have arisen from the takeover boom that
began in the mid-1980s.
A significant piece of scholarship.--Peter Fuhrman, Forbes
Accessible to interested laypersons and policy makers. . . . [A]
thoroughly readable and informative book.--Gregg A. Jarrell, Journal of
Economic Literature