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According to a recent meta-analysis of a number of merger studies, mergers that rely more on cost-cutting — combining back-office operations, eliminating redundancies, and so on — than on promises of vast growth are more likely to be successful.
These results are consistent with many corporate focus studies, suggesting that merger studies finding opposite results are the result of measurement error.
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The study covered 1990 to 2000, and of eight mergers studied, six led to price increases, averaging 1 to 2 cents a gallon, according to the report, and two resulted in decreases of about a penny a gallon.
But the results of a merger feasibility study will not be known until the fall.
That model takes account of alternative mergers and studies the decision of a competition authority from a dynamic perspective.
Two tests could assess the validity of the merger model, says study collaborator Tamara Bogdanović of the University of Maryland, College Park.
From today onward, commentators and MBA professors will probably call DaimlerChrysler the perfect example of a failed merger, another case study showing how not to engage in an ambitious equity swap with another firm.
Further, several hospitals were also involved in more than one merger during the study period.
Informants of all units exposed to merger in the study period (all but unit C) described this change as resulting in a more challenging work situation.
One could argue that this may be the reason why sick leave rates remained high 2 to 5 years after the merger in our study.
Rutgers University suspended its search for a new president and named a former administrator as acting president while it studies a merger with two other large schools that would significantly expand the president's responsibilities.
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