The paper examines the returns to shareholders of acquiring companies in India during the period 2003-08. The abnormal returns due to the announcement of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and return on equity funds five years before and after M&A have been examined. The study also performs a...

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...

The objective of the present paper is to investigate the influence of method of payment employed (cash, stock) in financing the acquisition, and to analyze the impact of the type of target firm (listed, unlisted) acquired on acquirers' return in cross-border acquisitions and domestic...

The paper tests if the documented size effect in the Indian stock market is an anomaly with respect to market efficiency or an artifact with respect to data or methodology employed. The study employs two related datasets (one being held constant through the study period, the other being revised...

The present study attempts to investigate whether differences in the quality of firm level corporate governance standards influence performance of acquiring firms for a sample of companies by creating a corporate governance index. The study is based on a survey of sample of 155 companies...