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Diversification and fund performance : an analysis of buyout funds

Huss, Matthias; Steger, Daniel - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 13 (2020) 6/136, pp. 1-16

This paper studies the relationship between portfolio diversification and fund performance, based on an unexplored … performance. We do not find a significant relationship between geographical diversification and performance. These results partly …

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Are women more likely to seek advice than men? : evidence from the boardroom

Levi, Maurice D.; Li, Kai; Zhang, Feng - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 8 (2015) 1, pp. 127-149

It is commonly believed that women are more likely to seek advice than men; for example, on aspects of health or asking for directions when lost. This paper investigates whether women’s relatively greater propensity for advice seeking extends to important business decisions, specifically those...

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Mergers and acquisitions (M&AS) by R&D intensive firms

Dutta, Shantanu; Kumar, Vinod - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 2 (2009) 1, pp. 1-37

there is no significant change in long-term operating performance subsequent to the M&A deals for both R&D firms and non R …

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Market misreaction? : leverage and mergers and acquisitions

Krishnan, C. N. V.; Yakimenko, Vasiliy - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 3, pp. 1-21

performance, for banks, making comparisons with non-banks. We compare announcement period reactions (computed in different ways … associations of capital ratio with announcement period abnormal returns, longer-term performance, as well as certain bank …-specific and non-bank specific performance measures. For banks, we find that a lower capital ratio of acquirers at the time of the …

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The effect of industry restructuring on peer firms

Holcomb, Alex; Mason, Paul - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 5, pp. 1-25

We study the bond price reaction of a merged firms peers, in order to better understand how the market responds to a restructuring. We argue that a merger announcement may signal the possibility of a merger wave to the industry, and in doing so, increase the conditional probability that peer...

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Cross-border acquisitions and shareholders’ wealth : the case of the Indian pharmaceutical sector

Wajid, Abdul; Sabiha, Anjim; Akhtar, Shakeb; Tabash, … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 10, pp. 1-17

Cross-border acquisitions by Indian companies have increased tremendously, especially during the last two decades, and the pharmaceutical industry is one of the top acquiring industries. This study verifies the relationship between cross-border acquisitions and shareholders’ wealth in the...

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Review of the literature on merger waves

Cho, Sangjun; Chung, Chune Young - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 10, pp. 1-21

Over the past few decades, the rapid growth of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) has received interest from academics and practitioners. While M&As continue to be the subject of thorough investigation from a corporate governance standpoint, comparatively less effort has been made to organize and...

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