We examine whether real-time return forecasts are valuable to an investor looking to allocate their portfolio across a wide selection of countries. We expand the Sum-of-Parts (SoP) method for forecasting stock returns to an international setup by adding FX returns as an additional component. We...

We study the impact of ownership on firm performance in an unexplored governance context: private equity (PE) firms and the buyouts in which they invest. We employ a multiple-membership, cross-classified, multilevel model on a unique database of 6,950 buyouts realized by 255 PE firms between...

Based on a sample of 995 acquisition events in Chinese stock market from 1999 to 2007, we simultaneously investigate the acquisition return for bidders and the target and find that both of them are slightly positive, which is inconsistent with foreign experiences. Besides, we also construct...

The present paper is an attempt to explore the influence of method of payment employed in financing the acquisitions. The aim of the present paper is to investigate the returns to acquirer shareholders in the case when a combination of cash and stock are used as mode of payment. The study also...