Success of Mergers and Acquisitions in the Insurance Industry: What Can We Learn From Previous Empirical Research?

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Figures List of Tables 1 Introduction 1.1 History of the Consolidation Process and Relevance of the Topic 1.2 Problem Statement and Research Gaps 1.3 Research Objectives and Development of Research Questions 1.4 Organization of the Study 2 Theoretical and Methodological Background 2.1 Overview 2.2 Theoretical Foundations 2.3 Methodological Foundations 3 Literature Review: Prior Research on the Success of Insurance M&A and its Determinants 3.1 Overview 3.2 Overview of Recent Studies 3.3 Selection of Prior Research 3.4 Literature Review Method 3.5 Development of Research Clusters 3.6 Review of Individual Studies on the Overall Success of Insurance M&A by Cluster 3.7 Review and Results of Prior Capital Market Research on the Overall Success of Insurance M&A 3.8 Review and Results of Prior Capital Market Research on the Determinants of M&A Success in the Insurance Industry 4 Evidence from the European Insurance Sector: Empirical Analysis of the Success of M&A and its Determinants 4.1 Overview 4.2 Formulation of Hypotheses 4.3 Specification of the Empirical Study 4.4 Results of the Empirical Study 5 Conclusion 5.1 Summary 5.2 Limitations 5.3 Implications Appendix Figures Tables References