This study examines the long-run share performance of acquirer' companies listed on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange (Tadawul) from 1st January 2000 to 31st August 2017. Using the buy-and-hold abnormal return method, the present study finds that the acquirer companies' shares for the cash payment...

This study examines the short-and-long-run share performance of IPO companies listed on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange (Tadawul) from 1st January 2000 to 31st August 2017. 45 IPO companies were included in this study. This study employs the event time approach and abnormal returns are...

The present study provides evidence for the long run post-acquisition share performance of acquirer companies traded on Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) for the period of 1998 to 2017. This study employs an event study methodology, a buy-and-hold abnormal return approach (BHAR) to compute the...

This study investigates the short- and long-run share return performance of politically-linked companies in the event of a spin-off during the period 1980 to 2011. The result shows that the group of politically linked parent companies significantly outperformed the group of non-politically...

This paper investigates the short- and long-run share return performance of Malaysian spin-off firms. Using daily and monthly data, it examines the performance of spin-off firms against the benchmarks of Malaysian indices and matched-firm portfolios. The results show that parent firms...

This paper investigates whether increased corporate focus surrounding a spin-off is associated with abnormal short-run and long-run share return performance from January 1980 to April 2011. By looking at the share return performance of both focus-increasing and non-focus-increasing parent firms,...