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AGGREGATE SIZE MEASURES OF MERGER MARKET: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM POLAND, 2002-2013

The Central European Review of Economics and Management

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Title AGGREGATE SIZE MEASURES OF MERGER MARKET: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM POLAND, 2002-2013
 
Creator Buczek, Aleksander Jerzy
 
Subject Economics
Merger and acquisition process; Legal merger procedure; Market size measurement; Polish merger market; Volumes analysis
C81, G34, K20
 
Description Merger and acquisition activity is very important economic phenomenon often leading to a permanent organizational changes of single industries or even entire economies. Theoretical part of this article is an attempt to define aggregate size measures which allow gaining quantitative view on its dimensions. Four measures are proposed to assess the size of a merger and acquisition market, namely: announced, backlog, completed and withdrawn volumes. Relationship between these measures is introduced. Their accuracy is dependent on assumed transaction and registration announcement definitions. Limitations of the research based on the commercial vendors’ datasets (for example Thomson Reuters) are presented. In order to overcome these limitations, alternative data collection methodology for merger transactions is derived from legal consolidation procedure defined in The Code of Commercial Partnerships and Companies. This approach allows collecting the information about 3870 merger transactions which have taken place in the period between 1st January 2002 and 31st December 2013 in Poland. Announced, backlog and completed volumes are calculated quarterly. All these quantitative measure exhibit strong seasonality. Besides, their stable growth on Polish market was observed from 2002 till 2011. After 2011 this trend has reverted, but rebound of the backlog volume in the second quarter of 2013 suggests that at least completed volume levels should be higher in the upcoming quarters.
 
Publisher WSB University in Wroclaw Publishing Department
 
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Date 2016-10-15
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Scientific Article
Artykuł naukowy
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://ojs.wsb.wroclaw.pl/index.php/WSBRJ/article/view/214
10.29015/cerem.214
 
Source The Central European Review of Economics and Management; Vol 16, No 3 (2016): Applicability of quantitative methods to economics, finance, and management; 73-90
The Central European Review of Economics and Management; Vol 16, No 3 (2016): Applicability of quantitative methods to economics, finance, and management; 73-90
2544-0365
2543-9472
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://ojs.wsb.wroclaw.pl/index.php/WSBRJ/article/view/214/239
 
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