title: Institutional factors and cross-border merger and acquisition : evidence from selected Asian countries
abstract: The objective of this study is to examine the impact of institutional factors on cross-border merger and acquisition (M&amp;A) inflows by using a panel data of 18 selected Asian countries from 2002 to 2016. This study contributes to the existing literatures by using various measures of institutional factors as the determinants of cross-border M&amp;A into selected Asian countries and examining at the disaggregated level according to country’s income level. There are two main results from this st