announcement events. Takeover announcements are not random because managers decide rationally whether to bid or not, this indicates … make normal returns. Results are robust and consistent with conventional economic theory. In sum failing to account for …

The impact of the announcement of a takeover bid has been widely tested in foreign literature. Therefore, the main goal … of this paper is to research the impact of the announcement of a takeover bid on the share price movements in the … takeover bid affects the share prices of the target company, which is consistent with the results of previous research …

Largely constant average acquirer returns over the past four decades mask fundamental changes in the takeover market … the 1980s. Offsetting this increase, the average bidder-specific component has declined. We propose a theory of bidder …-specific synergies to help interpret these opposing trends. In our theory and in the data, acquirer returns increase with the extent to …