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Rumors can be classified into two types, according to whether they can credibly predict impending events or not. The analysis of takeover rumors of publicly traded US companies from 1990 to 2008 shows that these two types of rumors can be statistically distinguished by returns of rumored...
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Rumors can be classified into two types, according to whether they can credibly predict impending events or not. The analysis of takeover rumors of publically traded US companies from 1990 to 2008 shows that these two types of rumors can be statistically distinguished by returns of rumored...
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and other influences by examining merger patterns for both listed and unlisted firms. If "real" changes in the economy … drive merger waves, as some neoclassical theories of mergers predict, both listed and unlisted firms should experience waves …. We find significant differences between listed and unlisted firms as predicted by behavioral theories of merger waves. …
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increases in share prices and price/earnings ratios. We test four hypotheses that have been advanced to explain merger waves …
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