share and therefore there is a tendency on the part of companies to go for merger with the ultimate objectives of gaining … synergies and better performance. Secondary data revealed the due to merger, there was decline in return on assets, but the … executives found that merger improved overall performance. However, the author also finds that there is lack of proper …

top to the bottom decile of the measure of uniqueness of the corporate strategy of the post-merger company is associated … decile; they also have subsequent one-year-post-merger-closing profitability which is about 1.25% lower than their peer group … with more unique corporate strategy. These findings are stronger for a measure of uniqueness that compares the post-merger …

Takeover bidders in stock-for-stock mergers have strong incentives to increase their own pre-merger stock prices to … underexplored opportunistic behavior by takeover bidders …

We examine takeover auctions when an informed bidder has better informationabout the target value than a rival and …