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paper is the first to document the role of cash holdings on bondholder wealth around takeover announcements …
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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...
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We analyze M&A announcements and focus on the potential impact of these deals on bond prices in the US corporate bond market. In particular, we investigate the effect of changes in credit, liquidity and rollover risk. This is important, as especially target firms are often small with rather...
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We examine the effects of controlling shareholder stock pledge on corporate acquisition decisions and associated performance. Consistent with our aggravated expropriation hypothesis, we find that pledging firms in China initiate more takeovers, but these acquisitions conducted by pledging firms...
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Stock returns around acquisition announcements are widely viewed as being reflective of the net present value created by these transactions. As such, announcement returns should correlate with acquisition outcomes. Using a new measure of realized transaction-level acquisition failure, as well as...
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By means of an international sample of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) involving firms with outstanding Eurobonds from the US, Europe, and other countries around the world, we show that bond performance around M&A announcements is sensitive to cross-country differences in creditor...
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Using United States takeover bids, we investigate the importance of information asymmetry in self-selection when … evaluating the abnormal returns of financial versus strategic takeover targets during a period of possible informed trade. Sample … selection bias due to differences in financial versus strategic takeover bids information environments is controlled for using …
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of targets, bidders, and their peers upon takeover announcement, and closing or withdrawal. We distinguish five common M …
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In this study, we evaluate the impact of R&D intensity on acquiring firms’ abnormal returns by examining 925 Canadian completed deals between 1993 and 2002 that have information on R&D expenditures. While examining the returns to acquiring firm shareholders in the R&D intensive firms we...
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This paper tests the effect of firms' mispricing and investment opportunities on the method of payment in mergers. Using a new proxy for investment opportunities and a sample of 1,187 mergers completed between 1990 and 2005 among US publicly traded firms, I find that acquirers lead the decision...
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