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Recent academic studies document that open market share repurchase announcements in the United States generate significantly lower returns than those reported in earlier studies. We find that the lower announcement return is associated with an increasing number of subsequent announcements in the...
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heterogeneity, clientele effect, distribution size, misvaluation, and takeover threat. The MNL results suggest that open market … repurchase is chosen when the takeover threat is high, firms are significant, or in case of undervaluation of firms. Tender offer … repurchase is preferred in high agency cost, high takeover threat, low shareholder heterogeneity, and undervaluation. The study …
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This study explores the short term effects of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) in Australia by examining the cumulative abnormal returns earned over a five day event window by the combined, target and acquiring firms. The study examines the wealth effects on the firm of the four bid...
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This paper examines changes in acquirer and target companies' Credit Default Swap (CDS) spreads as a proxy for default risk around official mergers and acquisitions (M&A) announce-ments. Related literature extensively documents wealth effects triggered by M&A from the shareholders' perspective,...
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This paper examines changes in Credit Default Swap (CDS) spreads as a proxy for default risk after M&A announcement for the companies involved. Existing literature extensively documents wealth effects triggered by M&A announcements from the shareholders' perspective, but there is limited...
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This study explores the investment behavior of underperforming chief executive officers (CEOs) on merger frequency and the effect on acquirers’ shareholder wealth of merger bids in U.S. industrial firms. We find that underperforming CEOs are more likely to make acquisitions, especially...
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This study explores the behavior of underperforming chief executive officers (CEOs) on merger frequency and the effect on acquirers’ shareholder wealth of merger bids in U.S. industrial firms from 1994 to 2018. We find that underperforming CEOs are more likely to make acquisitions, especially...
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Hard-to-value stocks provide opportunities for managers to exploit their informational advantage through trading on their firms' and their own personal accounts. In contrast to the prediction that such transactions reflect private information about future events, they are contrarian and heavily...
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Recent academic studies document that open market share repurchase announcement period returns are much lower than those reported in early studies. This study finds that the lower announcement returns are attributed to repeat announcements that dominate the sample in the recent period. The...
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