This study reports how country risk and macroeconomic conditions influence the wealth gains of U.S. financial firms involved in international mergers and takeovers. The findings suggest that U.S. financials experience weakly significant wealth gains around announcement date. The wealth gains are...

The brewing industry has recently experienced increased merger activity. This paper analyzes the shortterm wealth effects of horizontal mergers and acquisitions on acquirers in the brewing industry. Based on a sample of 69 takeover announcements between 1998 and 2010, significant positive...

China has sustained a rapid rate of economic growth and absorbed a great deal of foreign investment over the past decades. However, the laws pertaining to business in China have not kept up with China’s market growth. For this reason, investors in the Chinese stock market must assess...

This study examines how divesture affects the performance of listed companies in Taiwan. Divestiture describes firms selling their assets, production lines, subsidiaries or other segments for either cash or securities. This study focuses on two types of divestiture activities: sell-offs and...

We examine the value shareholders attribute to one euro of extra cash held by Spanish firms and how corporate governance impacts this value by comparing the value of cash for companies with good and poor governance. The results show that one euro of extra cash is valued at a considerable premium...

A domino effect can accelerate the spread of financial crises. Some firms, however, show better resistance than others thereby limiting the spread. Effective governance mechanisms enhance the ability of firms to absorb a stock market crisis. In a sample of Société des Bourses Françaises (SBF)...

This paper studies the relationship between firms' corporate governance quality and information content of stock trades. Following Hasbrouck (1991) method, a trade's information content is defined as persistent impact of trade innovation on stock price. Using firm-level governance data, we show...

The study investigates the predictors of credit risk in the universal banking industry with panel data from universal banks in Ghana and finds that leverage, assets (size), loan loss provision, board size, board independence, and the number of executive directors on the board of a bank are the...

Market reaction to mergers and acquisitions is a popular research topic in finance. It has been well documented in empirical literature that target companies earn significant abnormal market returns in corporate acquisitions. However, the effects of stock market crashes, and the effects of...

This paper empirically tests the determinants of executive pay. In order to gain more understanding of the fat cat problem that have been subject to hot debate, we also examine a sample firms that suffer from the fat cat problem, defined as firms with poor performance while their Chief Executive...