DAVID L. McKEE is Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Management at Kent State University. His recent books include Growth, Development, and the Service Economy in the Third World, Canadian-American Economic Relations: Conflict and Cooperation on a Continental Scale (edited) and Structural Change in an Urban Industrial Region (coedited with Richard E. Bennett).

• Preface The Positions of the Protagonists Three Cheers for the Corporate Raider by Richard K.Vedder Hostile Takeovers: An American Falkland Islands Where the Argentines Always Win by Leigh B. Trevor Merger-Mania: An Empirical Critique by Walter Adams and James W. Brock Economic, Legal, and Related Issues The Economic Implications of the Changing Merger Process by Edward R. Bruning Corporate Takeovers and Regional Economic Development: An Ohio Perspective by Brian P. Holly Restructuring the Fortune 500: The View from Ohio by R.D. Norton Ethical Considerations in Takeovers by Gordon E. Heffern The Corporate Takeover Regulatory Arena by Lois J. Yoder Foreign Direct Investment, Federal Tax Policy, and Corporate Control Foreign Direct Investment in the United States: Implications for Corporate Control by William D. Gunther Federal Tax Policy and the Market for Corporate Control: Relationships and Consequences by Robert P. Strauss Conclusion The Evidence and Public Policy by Walter Adams and James W. Brock Some Final Policy Reflections by David L. McKee Selected Bibliography Index

DAVID L. McKEE is Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Management at Kent State University. His recent books include Growth, Development, and the Service Economy in the Third World, Canadian-American Economic Relations: Conflict and Cooperation on a Continental Scale (edited) and Structural Change in an Urban Industrial Region (coedited with Richard E. Bennett).

• Preface The Positions of the Protagonists Three Cheers for the Corporate Raider by Richard K.Vedder Hostile Takeovers: An American Falkland Islands Where the Argentines Always Win by Leigh B. Trevor Merger-Mania: An Empirical Critique by Walter Adams and James W. Brock Economic, Legal, and Related Issues The Economic Implications of the Changing Merger Process by Edward R. Bruning Corporate Takeovers and Regional Economic Development: An Ohio Perspective by Brian P. Holly Restructuring the Fortune 500: The View from Ohio by R.D. Norton Ethical Considerations in Takeovers by Gordon E. Heffern The Corporate Takeover Regulatory Arena by Lois J. Yoder Foreign Direct Investment, Federal Tax Policy, and Corporate Control Foreign Direct Investment in the United States: Implications for Corporate Control by William D. Gunther Federal Tax Policy and the Market for Corporate Control: Relationships and Consequences by Robert P. Strauss Conclusion The Evidence and Public Policy by Walter Adams and James W. Brock Some Final Policy Reflections by David L. McKee Selected Bibliography Index

DAVID L. McKEE is Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Management at Kent State University. His recent books include Growth, Development, and the Service Economy in the Third World, Canadian-American Economic Relations: Conflict and Cooperation on a Continental Scale (edited) and Structural Change in an Urban Industrial Region (coedited with Richard E. Bennett).

• Preface The Positions of the Protagonists Three Cheers for the Corporate Raider by Richard K.Vedder Hostile Takeovers: An American Falkland Islands Where the Argentines Always Win by Leigh B. Trevor Merger-Mania: An Empirical Critique by Walter Adams and James W. Brock Economic, Legal, and Related Issues The Economic Implications of the Changing Merger Process by Edward R. Bruning Corporate Takeovers and Regional Economic Development: An Ohio Perspective by Brian P. Holly Restructuring the Fortune 500: The View from Ohio by R.D. Norton Ethical Considerations in Takeovers by Gordon E. Heffern The Corporate Takeover Regulatory Arena by Lois J. Yoder Foreign Direct Investment, Federal Tax Policy, and Corporate Control Foreign Direct Investment in the United States: Implications for Corporate Control by William D. Gunther Federal Tax Policy and the Market for Corporate Control: Relationships and Consequences by Robert P. Strauss Conclusion The Evidence and Public Policy by Walter Adams and James W. Brock Some Final Policy Reflections by David L. McKee Selected Bibliography Index