The paper examines the returns to shareholders of acquiring companies in India during the period 2003-08. The abnormal returns due to the announcement of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and return on equity funds five years before and after M&A have been examined. The study also performs a...

The present field study investigates Indian managers' opinion about stock splits and their motives for issuing them. The empirical findings of the survey reveal that management views stock splits as a tool that enhances trading liquidity. It brings the share price down to a preferred trading...

The present paper is an attempt to explore the influence of method of payment employed in financing the acquisitions. The aim of the present paper is to investigate the returns to acquirer shareholders in the case when a combination of cash and stock are used as mode of payment. The study also...

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have long been a popular element of corporate strategy and represent an important alternative for strategic expansion through inorganic growth. This paper investigates motives and trend of merger activities of Indian companies during the period 2003-08. The survey...

In the present paper, we construct a corporate governance index for a sample of 93 Indian companies listed on Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange. The index is based on a comprehensive set of 64 governance attributes for these sample companies, the companies, then, have been...

This paper examines the share price performance of domestic mergers and acquisitions in India during the period 2003-2008. The focus of the paper is on the shareholders of acquiring firms. The present work performs a disaggregated analysis for sub-samples based on the status of the target firm...