movements as the news of the merger is made public. The price movement of the acquiring firm's equity around the announcement of … better compensated for managing larger organizations, particularly when involved in merger activity. This study investigated … comprehensive Thomson Reuters SDC merger database and equity values from CRSP. Results indicated that weaker corporate governance is …

Using a sample of US bank mergers from 1995 to 2012, we observe that the pre-post merger changes in CEO bonus are … corporate governance but are positively correlated with pre-post merger changes in the M/B ratio of the bidding banks, in line …

Using the Japanese bank merger dataset for the 2000s, this paper investigates whether the reduction of the ownership … subsequent operating performance has a non-linear relationship with the cumulative shareholding ratio in the pre-merger period …% rule after the banks merger …

facilitate merger and acquisition (M&A) deals. We find that firms are significantly more likely to become targets if they borrow …