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EC-Intervened mergers and synergy expectations from company reports
Data on merger and procedural characteristics were collected from the case reports of the Commission. Secondly, internet news archives were scoured through in order to find relevant information for the analysed cases. These included merging parties’ expectations regarding the financial effects of their merger and the valuation of the merger transaction (more detailed...
Democratization and Power Resources 1850-2000
This large longitudinal study is the result of professor Tatu Vanhanen's long-term research on democratization and power resources. International scientific community knows this data also by the name "Vanhanen's Index of Power Resources". The data have been collected from several written sources and have been published as appendices of five different books. The books are...
Mergers and market shares after cartel breakdown
The cartels involved a total of 593 firms at the dates of breakdown. Data was collected on all mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures between former cartelists from the same cartel. The sources were: (i) companies websites, in particular annual reports, press releases, investor information, company timelines/histories, etc.; (ii) merger decisions documents published by the...
The probability of catching cartels: EU data 1985-2009
The dataset records firms that were involved in EU-wide cartels and were discovered by the European Commission between 1985-2009. Data were compiled from public sources such as the European Commission's cartel database and include the date of cartel detection.
Reliable estimates of crime detection rates could help design better sanctions and improve our understanding of the...
Laboratory Experiment on a New Version of Boudon's Game-Theoretic Model of Relative Deprivation
Background:Improvements in the upward social mobility of a group or society can paradoxically lead to more frustration (relative deprivation) among its members. At present, there is little understanding of the conditions under which this paradox occurs. Raymond Boudon created a game-theoretic model of relative deprivation that can be used to derive predictions for these...