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Imagine that you have reached the pinnacle of your career, and you are sitting in the driver’s seat of a multi-billion dollar enterprise. Business is good, sales are up, and the stock market responds to your company’s performance. In such circumstances, a chief executive officer (CEO) may...
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the form of mergers and acquisitions followed by the firms in the Indian pharmaceutical industry. The study found that …
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Previous research on the impact of currency risk on stock returns has failed to find a significant role for foreign exchange rates. This paper addresses several explanations of this finding with a unique dataset of U.S. firms that acquire targets in other countries. The dataset allows estimation...
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Purpose: Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have become a popular vehicle for domestic as well as international companies …
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Consolidation, Combination and Diversification (CCD’s) in the emerging globalized market leads to competition and escalating the monopoly power. Given the increasing liberalization of rules, regulations and law, a number of firms are going beyond national borders and making deals triumphant....
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In our sample of 1,937 US mergers (1995 to 2011), 8.4 percent of all targets received oers with negative premiums where …
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removing the competition concerns that mergers can determine. …
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This aim of this paper is twofold. First it examines the determinants of acquisitions and divestitures of Dutch firms … in the period 1996-2004. Second, it investigates the impact of acquisitions and divestitures on the firm’s innovative … involved in acquisition activities than non-innovating firms, which suggests that acquisitions are a strategy to gain access to …
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This paper examines the stock market reaction to annual earnings information releases using data on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. Using the event study method, the speed of reaction of the market to annual earnings information releases for a sample of 16 firms listed on the exchange is tested....
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The study examines the value creation of Merger and Acquisition (M&A) deals in European Banking from 1990-2004. This is performed, first, by examining the stock price reaction of banks to the announcement of M&A deals and, second, by analysing the determinants of this reaction. The findings...
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