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persistent winners are not frequent acquirers. Persistent losers appear to be overvalued at the time of the acquisition and pay …
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the same industry. At the same time, the market has a tendency to be overly optimistic about IPO prospects, especially …
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We examine the extent to which managers report opportunistically prior to corporate events by analyzing the association between the timing of stock swap announcements and completions and acquirers' reporting behaviors. Using the timing of merger announcements and completions to infer managerial...
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We examine the extent to which managers report opportunistically prior to corporate events by analyzing the association between the timing of stock swap announcements and completions and acquirers' reporting behaviors. Using the timing of merger announcements and completions to infer managerial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060746
This paper examines whether market evaluates merger announcements in a reasonable way based on their effect on fundamental value using a sample of 37 mergers from U.S. industries completed within 1992-1997. For this purpose, the post-merger performance measures were regressed by abnormal returns...
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The impact of the announcement of a takeover bid has been widely tested in foreign literature. Therefore, the main goal … of this paper is to research the impact of the announcement of a takeover bid on the share price movements in the … takeover bid affects the share prices of the target company, which is consistent with the results of previous research …
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We conduct an event study to assess the stock market evaluation of public takeover announcements. Unlike the majority …
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carved-out subsidiary; and anti-takeover provisions and industry structure of a carve-out on its acquisition likelihood and …
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Existing finance theory predicts that managers of takeover targets will increase leverage to enhance managerial control … which can, in turn, allow target managers to thwart a takeover attempt altogether. We find that targets significantly … poorly performing target managers made between takeover announcement and withdrawal result in significantly negative abnormal …
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Hard-to-value stocks provide opportunities for managers to exploit their informational advantage through trading on their firms' and their own personal accounts. In contrast to the prediction that such transactions reflect private information about future events, they are contrarian and heavily...
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