There is a perceived conflict of interests in going private transactions, resulting fromtransferring a company's ownership and control to affiliated parties and terminatingits public status. These deals are subject to mandatory disclosure requirements, aimedto inform shareholders before the...

We adjust the US stock-exchange listing count for all significant transactions that move corporate assets into or out of the stock market - in particular mergers and acquisitions. In contrast to the actual listing count, the US merger-adjusted count hardly peaks over 1980--2017 and does not...

Using a sample of US noncash acquirers, we find significant evidence of upward earnings management prior to announcing merger and acquisition deals. In this event study, we adopt an industry adjusted leverage proxy. No evidence of premerger earnings management is found in highly leveraged firms....

Meeks and Meeks (2022, MM for short)* has a question in its subtitle, Why spend ever more on mergers when so many fail? There are three interwoven strands in the book’s answer:First, contracts (explicit and implicit) often reward key players in the M&A market — executives and advisers —...

For an M&A context, this paper investigates stock payment acquirers' trade-off strategy between accruals-based earnings management (AM) and real earnings management (REM) and it impacts on firm's post-acquisition performance during the period before and the period after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act...

We study how securities analysts influence managers' use of different types of earnings management. To isolate causality, we employ a quasi-experiment that exploits exogenous reductions in analyst following resulting from brokerage house mergers. We find that managers respond to the coverage...

This paper offers new evidence on informed trading around merger and acquisition announcements from the UK equity and options market. The analysis suggests that in about 25%-33% of events there is abnormal option trading volume during the month that precedes the announcement. Such evidence is...

This paper studies the returns of non public firms acquisitions. Like the American studies do, we show the existence of a “non public firms acquisition effect” for the European multi-acquirer firms: abnormal returns are much higher for non-public firms (subsidiaries or private held firms)...

In this study, we investigate the effect of merger waves on the long-term valuation of aggregate stock market. Our empirical test shows significant positive relationship between the intensity of past, with four years lag, aggregate merger activity and the valuation of aggregate stock market

The economic and monetary unification, the globalization of markets and the increasing use of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have increased the level of competition in all sectors of the economy by opening the way to processes of Mergers and Acquisitions between companies....