Corporate Globalization
Through Mergers and Acquisitions

Leonard Waverman, general editor

ISBN 1895176123
$26.95 paper
ISSN 1188-0988
December 1991

xiv + 252 pages
Tables, figures, biblios.

Investment Canada Research Series, Volume 2


About the Book


The papers in this volume provide significant new research on the important topics of the extent of M&A activity in Canada, its similarity across countries, and the determinants and impacts of mergers and acquisitions.

 

About the Editors


Leonard Waverman is Director of the Centre for International Studies and Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto. He writes and teaches in the areas of industrial organization and public policy, energy and resource economics, and public utility and public enterprise economics.

 

Table of Contents


R. S. Khemani
Recent Trends in Merger and Acquisition Activity in Canada and Selected Countries
1
John Knubley,
William Krause
and Zulfe Sadeque
Canadian Acquisitions Abroad: Patterns and Motivations
23
Alan M. Rugman
and Leonard Waverman
Foreign Ownership and Corporate Strategy
59
John R. Baldwin
and Richard E. Caves
Foreign Multinational Enterprises and Merger Activity in Canada
89
Michael Patry
and Michel Poitevin
Hostile Takeovers: The Canadian Evidence
123
Paul Halpern
and Jack Mintz
Taxation and Canada-U.S. Cross-border Acquisitions
153
Ron Daniels
Mergers and Acquisitions and the Public Interest: Don't Shoot the Messenger
195
A.E. Safarian
Rapporteur's Comments
239


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