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Companies can grow by simply selling more products, but there is a long history of corporate growth based on strategic mergers and acquisitions. In recent months, the woodworking industry has seen ...

We develop a search-based theory of mergers and acquisitions with heterogeneous firms and endogenous search complementarities. We use this model to understand how merger incentives and the firm size ...