all bidders forecast, we document a higher likelihood of post-merger litigation and CEO turnover for bidders with a weak … forecasting reputation and for those that underperform post-merger …

. Therefore, this study aims to close this gap by exploring the effect of merger announcements on CDS spreads empirically. A …

private merger negotiation process affects bidding strategies. Weprovide strong evidence that market reactions to information … events during the private sale processhave a substantial impact on takeover prices. However, the sensitivity of private bids … duringmerger negotiations have important implications for takeover costs …

This paper offers new evidence on informed trading around merger and acquisition announcements from the UK equity and …

' information processing even in the context of one of the largest and most important corporate events – merger announcements. More … reaction to Friday stock swap announcements is muted, as evidenced by lower acquirers' merger announcement abnormal trading … volumes and less pronounced acquirers' merger announcement abnormal stock returns …

Merger and Acquisition (M&A) activities are not well-anticipated corporate events in the equity market. Do … be merger arbitragers and buy more shares of target firm stocks to speculate on final deal consummation; while banks …