Rising metropoli: The geography of mergers and acquisitions in Germany Andrés Rodríguez-Pose a and Hans-Martin Zademach b a Department of Geography and Environment London School of Economics Houghton Street London WC2 2AE, UK E-mail: A.Rodriguez-Pose@lse.ac.uk b Institute of Economic Geography Munich Business School, University of Munich Ludwigstr. 28 80539 Munich, Germany E-mail: Zademach@bwl.uni-muenchen.de Published: January 2003 ISBN: 0 7530 1623 0 © The material contained in this Paper is the copyright of the author. It can be quoted subject to normal copyright law, and should be cited as: Research Papers in Environmental and Spatial Analysis No. 78, Department of Geography & Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science.