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This paper examines whether global insurance mergers and acquisitions (M&As) create value for shareholders by … conducting an event study of M&A transactions for the period 1990-2006. Insurance acquirers realized small positive cumulative …. Acquirers from the insurance industry realize small market value gains from within-industry transactions, but cross-industry M …
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in mergers and acquisitions (M&As) by insurance firms. We investigate firm factors for both becoming a target or becoming … an acquirer using a detailed database of the Spanish insurance industry over the period 2000-2012. The period encompasses …
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This paper is the first to examine the effects of consolidation in the international insurance industry on the … strong positive relation between consolidation in the insurance industry and moderate systemic risk in the insurance and …-traditional financing activities, and diversification across insurance lines all add to the destabilizing effect of insurance consolidation …
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Global Recession to Global Recovery: It is well known fact that all good things, as also bad things, come to an end and business cycles pass through good and bad economic times. Economically 2010 was a year of transition from economic recession to recovery. Economies were improving in some...
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This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds and their relationship to the funds' organizational structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they are more likely to invest at home when domestic equity prices are higher,...
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The spread of investments by sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) around the world has raised questions about what determines their location choices. We argue that SWFs, like multinational companies, consider a host of cross-country distance factors to guide their location decisions and that the effect...
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