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This paper analyzes the common factor that drives the cyclical movements in the corporate event waves. We show that this common corporate factor is closely linked to the economic business cycles. We, first, document the statistical and the time-series properties of the corporate event waves to...
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literature on signaling by investigating whether a takeover attempt signals investors about the quality of firm management as …In this study, we examine unsuccessful takeover attempts for new evidence on whether mergers create or destroy value …
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findings suggest that the shareholders of target firms earn significantly positive abnormal returns on takeover announcements … firms, there was no market reaction on takeover announcements. Apparently, there was some evidence that bidders experienced … post-event positive wealth effects on takeover announcements. But this was not true for the majority as the significant …
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This study features the impact of takeovers on the event firms traded on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET). The study investigates a long-window abnormal return, or during a period of twelve months before and after the announcements using several metrics. The traditional models and the latest...
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This paper contributes to the comparative corporate governance literature by showing how cross-country differences in governance and legal standards affect the bondholder wealth effects of European merger and acquisitions (M&As).Using investment-grade Eurobonds, we find some remarkable...
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We show that the higher order biases of instrumental variable statistics in the strong instrument case indicate the degeneracy of the first order asymptotic distributions of these statistics under weak or many instrument asymptotics. We express the higher order approximations using an estimator...
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This paper is concerned with Bayesian reduced rank regression when instruments are weak. There have been a number of studies on weak identification problem with the application of reduced rank regression combined with singular value decomposition (SVD) method in the Bayesian framework, see...
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The multivariate reduced rank regression model plays an important role in econo- metrics. Examples include co-integration analysis and models with a factor struc- ture. Geweke (1996) provided the foundations for a Bayesian analysis of this model. Unfortunately several of the full conditional...
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