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Executive Compensation and Informed Trading in Acquiring Firms around Merger Announcements
Ordu, Umut - 2014
This paper analyzes informed trading in acquiring firms through (stock) merger announcements. We show that pre …-announcement abnormal option volumes in acquiring firms strongly increase ahead of a stock merger (by approximately 300%). Furthermore, we … abnormal put option trading before stock merger announcements. Overall, our results support the view that top executives have a …
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Executive compensation and informed trading in acquiring firms around merger announcements
Ordu, Umut; Schweizer, Denis - In: Journal of banking & finance 55 (2015), pp. 260-280
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Informed Trading Around Merger and Acquisition Announcements : Evidence from the UK Equity and Options Market
Siougle, Georgia - 2011
This paper offers new evidence on informed trading around merger and acquisition announcements from the UK equity and …
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Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Returns to Shareholders of Acquiring Firms : Indian Economy in Perspective
Rani, Neelam - 2012
The paper examines the returns to shareholders of acquiring companies in India during the period 2003-08. The abnormal returns due to the announcement of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and return on equity funds five years before and after M&A have been examined. The study also performs a...
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The Stock Market Reaction to Mergers and Acquisitions : Evidence from the Banking Industry
Lozada, Juan M. - 2020
Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are mainly a mechanism used in the Latin American banking industry to carry out business consolidation. This paper focuses on the effect of M&A announcements on stocks of Latin American banks and their rivals between 2000 and 2019. We evaluate two impacts of M&A...
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Debtholder Wealth Effects in Mergers and Acquisitions : Evidence from the CDS Market
Huettermann, Kai - 2020
This paper examines changes in acquirer and target companies' Credit Default Swap (CDS) spreads as a proxy for default risk around official mergers and acquisitions (M&A) announce-ments. Related literature extensively documents wealth effects triggered by M&A from the shareholders' perspective,...
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The Impact of Diversifying Acquisitions on Shareholder Wealth : Evidence from Turkish Acquirers
Akben Selcuk, Elif - 2016
This study examines the impact of diversifying acquisitions on acquiring Turkish firms. Using a sample of 98 acquisitions during 2000-2011, the study finds that acquiring firms experience statistically significant wealth gains surrounding the announcement date. The cross-sectional regression...
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Debtholder Wealth Effects in Mergers and Acquisitions : Evidence from the CDS Market
Huettermann, Kai - 2020
. Therefore, this study aims to close this gap by exploring the effect of merger announcements on CDS spreads empirically. A …
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Stock Price Movements and Trading Behaviors Around Merger and Acquisition Announcements : Evidence from the Korean Stock Market
Feng, Jingwei - 2020
This study examines the relationship between price movements of target firms' stocks and behaviors of local individual, local institutional, and foreign investors in trading target firms' stocks around mergers and acquisitions announcements in Korea. Results reveal that the average abnormal...
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Value Relevance of Mergers Blocked by Shareholder Lawsuits According to the German Stock Corporation Act : An Event Study
Labrenz, Helfried - 2014
the German Reorganisation Act (UmwG). A merger passed at the General Annual Meeting will not move forward as long as any …
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