Beitel, Patrick; Schiereck, Dirk; Wahrenburg, Mark - In: European Financial Management 10 (2004) 1, pp. 109-139
"We study 98 large M&As of European bidding banks from 1985 to 2000 in order to investigate drivers of excess returns to the shareholders of the targets, the bidders, and to the combined entity of the bidder and the target. Our findings show that many of 13 drivers identified mostly from prior,...