Are mergers and acquisitions significant events that develop informativeness? Is the informativeness process the same … contradictory. To answer to these questions we use the concept of informativeness to assess whether acquisitions improve the private … information content of stock prices. We consider a sample of mergers and acquisitions in the US and Europe over the 2000 …

Do shareholders of acquiring companies profit from acquisitions, or do acquiring CEOs overbid and destroy shareholder …

Mergers and acquisitions activity at global level could begin during 2014. Confidence in the economic environment, the … on mergers and acquisitions market. However, caution still dominate this area and this is understandable, given the … diminishing returns, mergers and acquisitions activity may be the only practical way of increasing for companies. …

This paper investigates the motives for acquisitions in the UK. Standard event study methodology is inadequate to … distinguish between different motives for acquisitions in any sample. Berkovitch and Narayanan (1993) propose a different … gain and total gain to distinguish acquisitions driven by efficiency from those driven by agency motives. To differentiate …