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Testing for Asymmetric Information Effects in Failed Mergers

Holl, Peter; Dassiou, Xeni; Kyriazis, Dimitris - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 4 (1997) 2, pp. 155-172

In this paper we report the results of an empirical investigation based on a sample of 105 failed merger bids that occurred in the UK in the 1980's. We find that target firms report large, significant, positive gains after the bid while bidder firms report large, significant, negative gains. We...

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