returns. Our results cast doubt on the usefulness of announcement returns as a measure of the value created in acquisitions …

outcome of a fairly recent trend in database marketing, namely the emergence of co-operative databases … using co-operative databases. We illustrate this framework in context of the optimal selection of customers for direct mail …

aggregate database than from some of the individual commercial databases. Although hedge funds deliver performance persistence …This paper proposes a novel database merging approach and re-examines the fundamental questions regarding hedge fund … performance. Before drawing conclusions about fund performance, we form an aggregate database by exploiting all available …

aggregate database than from some of the individual commercial databases. Although hedge funds deliver performance persistence …This paper proposes a novel database merging approach and re-examines the fundamental questions regarding hedge fund … performance. Before drawing conclusions about fund performance, we form an aggregate database by exploiting all available …

This paper formally analyzes the biases related to self-reporting in hedge fund databases by matching the quarterly … equity holdings of a complete list of 13F-filing hedge fund companies to the union of five major commercial databases of self …

We examine the importance of firm integration to outcomes of mergers and acquisitions using new ex ante product …-based measures of firm integration. Our framework allows us to measure ex ante integration risk for both observed acquisitions and … proposed acquisitions that might not materialize. As validation, our ex ante measures predict post-merger 10-K statements by …

We analyze factors behind 23,213 distressed acquisitions in European emerging markets from 2007–2019. Besides the … probability of distressed acquisitions, followed by corruption control and progress in banking reforms. The impact of institutions …