This study explores the investment behavior of underperforming chief executive officers (CEOs) on merger frequency and … the effect on acquirers’ shareholder wealth of merger bids in U.S. industrial firms. We find that underperforming CEOs are … wealth, we find that there is no evidence to indicate that underperforming CEOs perform more poorly with a merger bid …

of targets, bidders, and their peers upon takeover announcement, and closing or withdrawal. We distinguish five common M … investors believe in gains through the exploitation of market power by the post-merger entity. In a multinomial logistic model …

The recent merger between US Airways and American Airlines was approved by federal and state antitrust authorities … anticompetitive effects from this merger. The economics literature offers many reasons why such stock-market event studies should not … unrelated to competitive harms, such as when a merger changes expectations that one or more rivals will be “in play” (i.e., a …

I conduct an event study on the proposed $26.5 billion merger between Sprint and T-Mobile. Positive and statistically … and Verizon is consistent with a market power interpretation of the merger. AT&T's returns appear unaffected by news of …