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We introduce the concept of the post-merger integration duration (PMID) which is the time delay that it takes a merged … the time of a merger, and gradually levers up as the integration period nears completion. We hand collect a unique data …
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Using a large database of U.S. mergers and acquisitions (M&As) announced from 2010 through 2017, we examine the effects of capital ratio (leverage) on the announcement period stock price reaction as well as on longer-term stock returns and performance, for banks, making comparisons with...
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Using 189 commercial bank mergers between 1997 and 2004, we document a positive impact of the merger activity on bank …
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This paper studies whether debt renegotiation mitigates debt overhang and improves investment efficiency. Using mergers between lenders participated in the same syndicated loans as natural experiments that exogenously reduce the number of lenders and thus make renegotiation easier, I find that...
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Mergers in Kenya banking industry have grown dramatically since 1994. Some of the reasons put forward for mergers are to meet the increased levels of share capital, market share, firm size, information asymmetry, tax regimes, and to benefit from best global practices among others. The banking...
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identify the effect of business risk on capital structure. We find that post-merger changes in leverage and cash holdings are … strongly predicted by expected asset volatility changes estimated using pre-merger information. These capital structure …
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This article examines whether merger per se may be related to changes in the capital structure of the participating … firms. The findings are consistent with the existence of merger-related incentives to increase financial leverage for a … strong relationship between merger accounting procedures (purchase vs. pooling) and relative increases in leverage …
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The present paper studies the impact of the SOX act to the choice of payment in Mergers & Acquisitions for firms with different capital structures. Use Probit and Tobit models to access the firms' pre-acquisition leverage levels as well as the leverage changes of firms because of the SOX act....
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