Bureau of Economics: Merger Roundtable Papers

Understanding Mergers: Stategy & Planning, Implementation and Outcomes

Agenda of the roundtable

Summary and analysis of the day's events

Subject index to the roundtable transcript

Complete text (Panels 1 thru 5) (660 KB) and presentations (Panels 1 thru 5) (3 MB)

Introductory Remarks excerpt

Panel 1 only text and presentations (Research on Merger Outcomes)

Panel 2 only text and presentations (Motivations for Mergers and Key Success and Failure Factors)

Panel 3 only text and presentations (Doing, Implementing and Following The Deal - "Insider" Views)

Panel 4 only text and presentations (How and in What Context Do Cost Savings of Various Kinds Affect Business Decision Making? What Have Been the FTC and DOJ's Experience with Efficiency Claims?)

Panel 5 only text and presentations (Pre-Consummation Information Exchange and Integration Planning)

Bibliography and business review paper (Pautler, Paul A. (2003 draft) The Effects of Mergers and Post-Merger Integration: A Review of Business Consulting Literature)

Biographies

Panel 1 - Research on Merger Outcomes
Fredric M. Scherer / Robert H. McGuckin / Susanne Trimbath / Steve N. Kaplan

Panel 2 - Motivations for Mergers and Key Success and Failure Factors
Pankaj Ghemawat / Michael J. Shelton / Mark L. Sirower

Panel 3 - Doing, Implementing and Following The Deal - "Insider" Views
Joseph L. Bower / Juan Pedro Hernandez / Robert Ingram / David Scheinman
John Mayfield / Peter S. Brodsky / Michael A. Jones / William E. Earnest

Panel 4 - How and in What Context Do Cost Savings of Various Kinds Affect Business Decision Making? What Have Been the FTC and DOJ's Experience with Efficiency Claims?
Andrew R. Dick / David T. Painter / Gabriel H. Dagen

Panel 5 - Pre-Consummation Information Exchange and Integration Planning
M. Howard Morse / James C. Morphy / Paul Bonanto / Mark D. Whitener
William J. Kolasky