One of the key processes that business leaders are using to grow their organizations is mergers and acquisitions (M …

industrial rganization (much of it involving estimating the effects of mergers on industry competitors). The volume ends with a … for the CEO), governance spillovers from cross-border mergers (are there any?) and, finally, the returns to merger …

Reverse mergers are an alternative method to IPOs for going public and announcement day price reaction to reverse … mergers is comparable to the initial day price reaction to IPOs. Most of the academic theories developed thus far to explain … the market's reaction to IPOs, however, are not applicable to reverse mergers. Using reverse mergers as an out …

in acquiring firms' stocks prior the announcement of mergers. While we show a surge in shorting activity after the …

terms of mergers. To investigate this question, we designed a modified event study to test whether markets respond to the … (which delineate the legal terms). We focused on a data set of cash-only public company mergers spanning the decade from 2002 … effects of the clients' own managerial hubris in pursuing mergers that may (and often do) fall short of expectations …

There is little consensus regarding the overall performance of mergers and acquisitions in the banking industry. The … goal of this paper is to investigate the change in operating performance, efficiency, and value addition of US bank mergers … and acquisitions after GLBA. We extend the previous research by combining all the previous methodologies used in mergers …