This study explores the 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 from 1994 to 2018. We find that underperforming CEOs are more likely to make acquisitions, especially...

Prior research has addressed the question of whether certain events cause a transfer of wealth between stockholders and bondholders but does not control for the events' impacts on firms' credit risk. This may explain why many studies fail to identify wealth transfers. By employing announcements...

Wealth transfer effects between stockholders and bondholders on the announcement date of changes in a firm's credit rating have primarily been examined a) for one type of security; b) on US capital markets; and c) by applying standard event study methods. In contrast to these investigations, we...