Mergers and acquisitions : a cyclical and legal phenomenon / Claire A. Hill, Brian J.M. Quinn and Steven Davidoff Solomon -- M&A contracts : purposes, types, regulation and patterns of practice / John C. Coates IV -- The market for corporate control : survey of the empirical evidence, estimation...

This paper uses a rich panel data set of Indian manufacturing firms to analyze the effects of domestic and international acquisitions on various outcomes at target firm and product level. We apply recent methodological advances in the estimation of production functions together with information...

Option prices embed predictive content for the outcomes of pending mergers and acquisitions. This is particularly important in merger arbitrage, where deal failure is a key risk. In this paper, I propose a dynamic asset pricing model that exploits the joint information in target stock and option...