This study performs a cross-country comparison by examining the large samples of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in emerging markets (EMs). The underlying purpose is to investigate how market investors react to the M&A deals conducted by acquiring firms with different degrees of corporate...

The aim of this paper is to provide fresh-out of sample evidence on short-term and long-term performance following announcement of mergers and acquisitions. The research is based on 109 M&A deals in Central and Eastern European countries for years 2001-2014. For the short-horizon event studies,...

Using a large sample of 2,712 unique U.S. domestic takeovers over the period 1993 to 2014, we show a negative relation between the level of cash holdings and post-announcement corporate bond returns. Our findings support the agency cost of cash holdings view and show that bondholders and...

Serial acquirers conduct the vast majority of acquisitions in the U.S. Serial acquirers appear to strategically shift between methods of payment based on changes in their own characteristics, using overvalued stock in stock-financed acquisitions during short windows of opportunity. Acquirer...

Do managers time the market when they make merger decisions? Merger and acquisition waves seem to correspond with market tides, cresting with bull markets. A contentious debate exists over whether this trend indicates managerial market timing ability. Pseudo market timing, introduced by Schultz...

Prior literature in accounting and financial economics measures asset growth as year-over-year growth in total assets. Such growth estimates are upward biased when firms engage in mergers and acquisitions. We decompose asset growth into merger-related and organic growth components, and find that...

Rumors can be classified into two types according to whether they can credibly predict impending events. Our analysis of takeover rumors of publicly traded US companies shows that public information on a rumored takeover target, particularly its historical Cumulative Abnormal Return (CAR) before...

The paper provides evidence on abnormal returns performance in acquisitions on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. From a variety of measures, the authors chose the event study methodology, used in developed markets to evaluate post-acquisition performance and based on the market data, and Cumulative...

In recent years, a number of papers have established a new empirical regularity. Stocks of distressed firms vastly underperform those of financially healthy firms. It is not necessary to attribute the negative excess returns of distressed firms to inefficient or irrational markets. We show that...

We investigate the cross-sectional predictive relations between stock returns of two public firms with one firm, the parent, owning partial equity of the other, the subsidiary. We find that high past returns of the subsidiary (parent) predict high future returns of the parent (subsidiary). The...