This paper employs a new approach to identify merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions financed by syndicated loans and provides evidence that acquirer announcement returns are higher in loan-financed M&A deals than in other deals. Utilizing an instrumental variable approach and a quasi-natural...

The study examines the value creation of Merger and Acquisition (M&A) deals in European Banking from 1990-2004. This is performed, first, by examining the stock price reaction of banks to the announcement of M&A deals and, second, by analysing the determinants of this reaction. The findings...

The study examines the value creation of Merger and Acquisition (M&A) deals in European Banking from 1990-2004. This is performed, first, by examining the stock price reaction of banks to the announcement of M&A deals and, second, by analysing the determinants of this reaction. The findings...

This paper studies the bilateral drivers of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) between European banks. Two findings document that banks use M&A as a device to leverage their expertise rather than to diversify. (i) Following the literature on matrimonial matching by using a binary logit model, the...

It is commonly perceived that firms do not want to be outsiders to a merger between competitor firms. We instead argue that it is beneficial to be a non-merging rival firm to a large horizontal merger. Using a sample of mergers with expert-identification of relevant rivals and the event-study...

This paper examines changes in acquirer and target companies' Credit Default Swap (CDS) spreads as a proxy for default risk around official mergers and acquisitions (M&A) announce-ments. Related literature extensively documents wealth effects triggered by M&A from the shareholders' perspective,...

In this paper we examine the disclosure on the IPO prospectus that refers to the firm's intention to pursue an active acquisition strategy as one of the reasons for going public (disclosers). Based on research showing that properly evaluated M&As are more successful, we examine whether the...

We investigate whether the merger announcement dates provided in a popular Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) database, SDC, serve as accurate event dates for estimating the wealth effects of mergers on target firms located in Turkey. We find that 74% of SDC's merger announcement dates are preceded...

In this paper we investigate the main features of the domestic and cross-border corporate acquisitions involving 38 European countries in the period 2003-2010. The analysis is based on characteristics of takeover transactions such as the type of transaction, relative value of the deal, payment...

Wealth transfer effects between stockholders and bondholders on the announcement date of changes in a firm's credit rating have primarily been examined a) for one type of security; b) on US capital markets; and c) by applying standard event study methods. In contrast to these investigations, we...