Content: 1. Takeover activity, valuation estimates and merger gains -- 2. Bidding strategies, financing and control modern empirical developments. This is a selection of republished corporate finance articles and book chapters that can serve as an advanced corporate finance supplementary text for courses that use no textbooks. Combining convenience and an affordable price with retypeset pages and a high-quality index, these two 600-page paperback volumes will introduce students to modern scientific evidence about corporate takeovers. The quality of Elsevier's holdings in these subjects is high enough and broad enough to cover important subjects in detail. With indexes and new introductions, these volumes will simplify and facilitate students' interaction with new concepts and applications. This title provides a status report about modern scientific evidence on corporate takeovers. It exposes students to new methods and empirical evidence while reading high quality primary material. It offers a concise and cost-efficient package of journal and book articles for advanced corporate finance students.