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Cross-border acquisitions by Indian companies have increased tremendously, especially during the last two decades, and the pharmaceutical industry is one of the top acquiring industries. This study verifies the relationship between cross-border acquisitions and shareholders’ wealth in the...
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This paper offers new evidence on informed trading around merger and acquisition announcements from the UK equity and …
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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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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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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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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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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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. Therefore, this study aims to close this gap by exploring the effect of merger announcements on CDS spreads empirically. A …
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