leading to a takeover announcement. Using a sample of 3,455 Chinese listed firms that are targets of successful acquisitions … also suggests that pre-merger earnings management in target firms is not fully anticipated by the market before the … takeover announcement. We find no evidence of earnings management immediately after the announcement quarter. …

all bidders forecast, we document a higher likelihood of post-merger litigation and CEO turnover for bidders with a weak … forecasting reputation and for those that underperform post-merger …

It is commonly perceived that firms do not want to be outsiders to a merger between competitor firms. We instead argue … that it is beneficial to be a non-merging rival firm to a large horizontal merger. Using a sample of mergers with expert … merger announcement date. Further, we find that the stock reaction of rivals to merger events is not sensitive to merger …