Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Alexander Radygin Author-Name-First: Alexander Author-Name-Last: Radygin Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Title:The Russian Market for Mergers and Acquisitions: Stages, Peculiarities and Outlooks Abstract: In this paper we extend the stationarity test proposed by Kurozumi and Tanaka (2010) for reducing size distortion with one structural break. We find the bias up to the order of 1/T for four types of models containing structural breaks. The simulations on finite samples show a reduction of size distortions in comparison with other tests, thus receiving higher power. Length:33 pages Creation-Date: 2012 Revision-Date: 2012 Classification-JEL: G34 Keywords:Mergers, acquisitions, Russian economy, corporate law, corporate governance File-URL: https://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/wpaper/0045Radygin.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf File-Function: Revised version, 2012 Handle: RePEc:gai:wpaper:0045