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The Emerging Role of the European Commission in Merger and Acquisition Monitoring: The Boeing–McDonnell Douglas Case

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  • Nihat Aktas
  • Eric De Bodt
  • Michel Levasseur
  • André Schmitt

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The object of this study is to evaluate the consequences of the application of the EEC Regulation 4064/89 to non–European companies. We focus on the Boeing–McDonnell Douglas merger case, one of the first non–European mergers considered by the Commission. The analysis of abnormal returns on the two securities shows that the threat of a ban of the merger by the Commission were not perceived as credible at first. But when Boeing decided to ask the support of the American government, just after the decision of the European Commission to extend its investigations to the long term exclusivity contracts, the role of the Commission emerged.

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  • Nihat Aktas & Eric De Bodt & Michel Levasseur & André Schmitt, 2001. "The Emerging Role of the European Commission in Merger and Acquisition Monitoring: The Boeing–McDonnell Douglas Case," European Financial Management, European Financial Management Association, vol. 7(4), pages 447-480, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:eufman:v:7:y:2001:i:4:p:447-480
    DOI: 10.1111/1468-036X.00166
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    1. Aktas, Nihat & Bodt, Eric de & Roll, Richard, 2004. "European M&A Regulation is Protectionist," University of California at Los Angeles, Anderson Graduate School of Management qt9gd3x41d, Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA.
    2. Joseph H. Golec & John A. Vernon, 2006. "European Pharmaceutical Price Regulation, Firm Profitability, and R&D Spending," NBER Working Papers 12676, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    3. Atkas, Nihat & Bodt, Eric de & Roll, Richard, 2001. "Market Response to European Regulation," University of California at Los Angeles, Anderson Graduate School of Management qt0qc9p8gf, Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA.
    4. Kanungo, Rama Prasad, 2021. "Uncertainty of M&As under asymmetric estimation," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 122(C), pages 774-793.
    5. Til Beckmann & William Forbes, 2004. "An Examination of Takeovers, Job Loss and the Wage Decline within UK Industry," European Financial Management, European Financial Management Association, vol. 10(1), pages 141-165, March.
    6. Maurizio Dallocchio & Jerome Hubler & Philippe Raimbourg & Antonio Salvi, 2006. "Do Upgradings and Downgradings Convey Information? An Event Study of the French Bond Market," Economic Notes, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA, vol. 35(3), pages 293-317, November.
    7. Nihat Aktas & Eric de Bodt & Michel Levasseur, 2004. "Heterogeneity effects from market interventions," The European Journal of Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 10(5), pages 412-436.

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