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returns. Our results cast doubt on the usefulness of announcement returns as a measure of the value created in acquisitions …
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We study the bond price reaction of a merged firms peers, in order to better understand how the market responds to a restructuring. We argue that a merger announcement may signal the possibility of a merger wave to the industry, and in doing so, increase the conditional probability that peer...
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There is a widespread belief among observers that a lower premium is paid when the target CEO is retained by the acquirer in a private equity deal because the CEO's potential conflicts of interest leads her to negotiate less aggressively on behalf of the target shareholders. Our empirical...
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I review recent takeover research which advances our understanding of "who buys who" in the drive for productive efficiency. This research provides detailed information on text-based definitions of product market links between bidders and targets, the role of the supply chain and industrial...
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In several recent cases, the Delaware Chancery Court has emphasized that where a conflict of interest exists between holders of a company's common stock and holders of its preferred stock, the standard of conduct for directors requires that they strive to maximize the value of the corporation...
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This research investigates the relationship between corporate block ownership and firm financial leverage. Corporate blockholders, which are nonfinancial firms who hold more than five percent equity in a target industrial firm, can affect the target firm's policies through their business...
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Firms changing their listing from the less regulated AIM to the more regulated main section of the London Stock Exchange exhibit positive returns on the day the decision is announced, while for firms moving in the opposite direction both announcement and implementation day returns are negative....
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Several theories like optimal trading range hypothesis, liquidity hypothesis, signaling hypothesis have been advanced in relation to this non-economic corporate event. But still there is need to study the investors' optimizing behavior after stock split. With this focus on optimization of the...
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“Modern” accounting adheres to 15th century conventions in maintaining that corporate stock repurchases never result in a profit or loss for a firm. In actual practice, however, few purely financial decisions rival stock repurchases in their bearing on the well-being of shareholders. Because...
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