Gelman, Sergey; Wilfling, Bernd - In: Journal of Empirical Finance 16 (2009) 5, pp. 745-758
This paper examines shifts in the market betas and the conditional volatility of stock prices of takeover targets. Using daily stock prices of five European and American targets, we find that adequately specified Markov-switching GARCH models are capable of detecting statistically significant...