Jiao, Jie; Qiu, Bin; Yan, An - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 37 (2013) 9, pp. 3435-3453
In the paper, we find that diversification reduces the heterogeneity of investor beliefs on firm value. We obtain this finding by comparing not only between diversified and focused firms but also between diversifying and non-diversifying mergers. We also find that the reduced heterogeneity of...