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This study investigates whether conference calls accompanying M&A announcements in Europe provide valuable information for capital market participants and hence induce an abnormal stock price revaluation on the bidder’s equity. Based on handpicked data for transactions between 2008 and 2012 we...
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A key objective of shareholder activists is to persuade a firm’s management to change its strategy. CFOs play an important role in negotiations, nonetheless activism research mainly focuses on CEOs. We examine the relationship between CFO overconfidence and the likelihood to get targeted by...
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We look at the wealth generated for shareholders of energy assets in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) by the announcement of cross-border mergers or acquisitions involving a bidder from a Western industrialized country between 1995 and 2005. The impact on both the performance improvements at the...
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effects of horizontal mergers and acquisitions on acquirers in the brewing industry. Based on a sample of 69 takeover …
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This study investigates whether conference calls accompanying M&A announcements in Europe provide valuable information for capital market participants and hence induce an abnormal stock price revaluation on the bidder's equity. Based on handpicked data for transactions between 2008 and 2012 we...
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managers acquire stakes in foreign publicly listed firms 1) to play an active role which would support concerns or 2) passively …, pay higher dividends and have a higher financial stability than their industry peers. This is in line with SWF managers … operating or market performance after the engagement of SWF. Overall, our results indicate strong evidence that SWF managers …
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