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Despite the mounting evidence that stock misvaluation affects takeover characteristics and outcomes at the deal level …
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We document a strong positive initial market reaction to merger announcements from bidders with either large earnings growth or significant earnings decline, relative to those with neutral earnings change, reflecting a U-shaped pattern between bidders’ earnings growth and announcement returns....
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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 …
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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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The Nasdaq Stock Market's enforcement activities offer a unique setting for investigating the consequences of changes in corporate governance as evidenced by deficiency notices. We document significant negative abnormal returns in response to Nasdaq deficiency notices for audit committee and...
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This study performs a cross-country comparison by examining the large samples of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in emerging markets (EMs). The underlying purpose is to investigate how market investors react to the M&A deals conducted by acquiring firms with different degrees of corporate...
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During the 2008-2009 financial crisis, firms with high social capital, measured as corporate social responsibility (CSR) intensity, had stock returns that were four to seven percentage points higher than firms with low social capital. High-CSR firms also experienced higher profitability, growth,...
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Sowohl die Diversifikation als auch die Fokussierung von Unternehmensaktivitäten werden häufig mit der Maximierung des Unternehmenswertes begründet. Wir untersuchen die Auswirkungen auf den Aktienkurs für 184 Akquisitionen sowie 139 Desinvestitionen deutscher Konzerne im Zeitraum von...
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of targets, bidders, and their peers upon takeover announcement, and closing or withdrawal. We distinguish five common M …
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This paper empirically evaluates two possible sources of large takeover premiums: preemptive bidding and target … resistance. We develop an auction model that features costly sequential entry of bidders in takeover contests and that … in the period 1988-2006. We find that target resistance is the main determinant of takeover premiums in 74% of successful …
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