In research, public, and policy debate, there is increasing interest in data intensive firms like Google, Facebook, and Amazon. As business models of data firms are often characterized by high scale economies and network externalities, they are expected to have a particularly large incentive to...

Managers frequently project high synergistic gains when announcing M&As. This paper analyzes when promised synergies are value-relevant. Using text analytical methods, we only find a positive relationship between synergy projections and announcement returns when promised numerical projections...

This paper suggests a motive for bank mergers that goes beyond alleged and typically unverifiable scale economies: preemtive resolution of banks ́financial distress. Such "distress mergers" can be a significant motivation for mergers because they can foster reorganizations, realize...

This paper suggests a motive for bank mergers that goes beyond alleged and typically unverifiable scale economies: preemtive resolution of banks' financial distress. Such "distress mergers" can be a significant motivation for mergers because they can foster reorganizations, realize...

Universal Banks, Corporate Control, and Equity Carve-Outs in Germany This paper analyzes value effects of changes in the governance structure of German firms due to equity carve-outs. Our main conjecture is that the degree of pre-event corporate control affects market reactions to the...

Traditional tests of the CAPM following the Fama / MacBeth (1973) procedure are tests of thejoint hypotheses that there is a relationship between beta and realized return and that the marketrisk premium is positive. The conditional test procedure developed by Pettengill / Sundaram/ Mathur (1995)...