The main purpose of this paper is to investigate empirically whether corporate diversification reduces the risk of the diversifying firm. We investigate this issue using a sample of diversifying acquisitions and various risk measures. We find that corporate diversification tends to decrease the...

We investigate the possibility that the diversification discount is due to differing growth opportunities between diversified and single-segment firms. We do this by comparing diversified business segments with individual single-segment same-industry firms of comparable growth opportunities....

Whether corporate diversification decreases or increases the risk of the diversifying firm is an important empirical question. We investigate this issue using a sample of diversifying acquisitions and various risk measures. We find that corporate diversification tends to decrease the risk of...