Purpose – This paper examines whether and how females on the board of directors affect US-listed companies’ merger and …

that the industry-adjusted operating performance of merged banks increases significantly after a merger. This finding is … significantly after a merger. Revenue enhancement opportunity appears to be more profitable if there exists more opportunity for …

This study examines the merger announcement and post-announcement value effects of special purpose acquisition company … (“SPAC”) transactions in the United States from January 2010 up to March 2021. It finds positive cumulative abnormal merger … are on average positive up until 15 months after merger announcement and negative afterwards. This study shows the effect …

This study examines the impact of merger and acquisition (M&A) announcements made by U.S. companies listed on New York …

constant, rated firms increase their leverage in takeover transactions by less than their unrated counterparts. Consistent with …

This paper investigates the merger wave hypothesis for the US and the UK employing a Markov regime switching model …. Using quarterly data covering the last thirty years, for the US, we identify the beginning of a merger wave in the mid 1990s … but not the much-discussed 1980s merger wave. We argue that the latter finding can be ascribed to the refined methods of …