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...

The present paper is an attempt to explore the influence of method of payment employed in financing the acquisitions. The aim of the present paper is to investigate the returns to acquirer shareholders in the case when a combination of cash and stock are used as mode of payment. The study also...

In the present paper, we construct a corporate governance index for a sample of 93 Indian companies listed on Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange. The index is based on a comprehensive set of 64 governance attributes for these sample companies, the companies, then, have been...