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The intangibles song in takeover announcements : good tempo, hollow tune
Filipovic, Zoran M.; Wagner, Alexander F. - 2019
novel word list of intangibles and apply it to takeover announcements. Deals presented with more “intangibles talk” complete … overoptimism. Overall, takeover announcements can provide important information regarding the quality of deals …
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Mergers and acquisitions (M&AS) by R&D intensive firms
Dutta, Shantanu; Kumar, Vinod - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 2 (2009) 1, pp. 1-37
In this study, we evaluate the impact of R&D intensity on acquiring firms’ abnormal returns by examining 925 Canadian completed deals between 1993 and 2002 that have information on R&D expenditures. While examining the returns to acquiring firm shareholders in the R&D intensive firms we...
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Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Returns to Shareholders of Acquiring Firms : Indian Economy in Perspective
Rani, Neelam - 2012
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...
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Does the Stock Market Expect Upcoming Merger Activity?
Saidiev, Ulugbek - 2014
The study introduces empirical evidence that there are statistically significant relationships between intensity of upcoming aggregate merger activity and the present values of the factors HML and SMB in the Fama-French three-factor model of assets pricing
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Debtholder Wealth Effects in Mergers and Acquisitions : Evidence from the CDS Market
Huettermann, Kai - 2020
This paper examines changes in acquirer and target companies' Credit Default Swap (CDS) spreads as a proxy for default risk around official mergers and acquisitions (M&A) announce-ments. Related literature extensively documents wealth effects triggered by M&A from the shareholders' perspective,...
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Mergers and Acquisitions : Evidence on Post-Announcement Performance from CEE Stock Markets
Zaremba, Adam - 2016
The aim of this paper is to provide fresh-out of sample evidence on short-term and long-term performance following announcement of mergers and acquisitions. The research is based on 109 M&A deals in Central and Eastern European countries for years 2001-2014. For the short-horizon event studies,...
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Debtholder Wealth Effects in Mergers and Acquisitions : Evidence from the CDS Market
Huettermann, Kai - 2020
This paper examines changes in Credit Default Swap (CDS) spreads as a proxy for default risk after M&A announcement for the companies involved. Existing literature extensively documents wealth effects triggered by M&A announcements from the shareholders' perspective, but there is limited...
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Value Relevance of Mergers Blocked by Shareholder Lawsuits According to the German Stock Corporation Act : An Event Study
Labrenz, Helfried - 2014
This paper analyses lawsuits against shareholders' resolutions according to the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG) and the German Reorganisation Act (UmwG). A merger passed at the General Annual Meeting will not move forward as long as any lawsuit is pending with a court. In particular, mergers...
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The Relationship between Announcements of Complete Mergers and Acquisitions and Acquirers' Abnormal CDS Spread Changes
Hippert, Benjamin; Uhde, André - 2021
Employing a sample of 492 merger and acquisition (M&A) announcements from 284 acquirers across North America and Europe between 2005 and 2018, this study analyzes the impact of M&A announcements on an acquirers abnormal CDS spread changes. We find that spreads from CDS which are written on...
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Taking Over the Size Effect : Asset Pricing Implications of Merger Activity
Easterwood, Sara; Netter, Jeffry M.; Paye, Bradley S.; … - 2022
ex ante takeover exposure positively and robustly relates to cross-sectional expected returns. The relation between size … and expected returns becomes positive or insignificant, rather than negative, conditional on this takeover characteristic …. Asset pricing models that include a factor based on the takeover characteristic outperform otherwise similar models that …
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