Are mergers and acquisitions significant events that develop informativeness? Is the informativeness process the same … contradictory. To answer to these questions we use the concept of informativeness to assess whether acquisitions improve the private … information content of stock prices. We consider a sample of mergers and acquisitions in the US and Europe over the 2000 …

Using a sample of acquisitions of unlisted firms completed by public companies from 17 Western European countries over … announcement period abnormal returns to acquirers. 12.5% of the unlisted targets are PE-backed. Acquisitions of PE-backed firms are …