top to the bottom decile of the measure of uniqueness of the corporate strategy of the post-merger company is associated … decile; they also have subsequent one-year-post-merger-closing profitability which is about 1.25% lower than their peer group … with more unique corporate strategy. These findings are stronger for a measure of uniqueness that compares the post-merger …

Takeover bidders in stock-for-stock mergers have strong incentives to increase their own pre-merger stock prices to … underexplored opportunistic behavior by takeover bidders …

share and therefore there is a tendency on the part of companies to go for merger with the ultimate objectives of gaining … synergies and better performance. Secondary data revealed the due to merger, there was decline in return on assets, but the … executives found that merger improved overall performance. However, the author also finds that there is lack of proper …

We examine takeover auctions when an informed bidder has better informationabout the target value than a rival and …

selection and support the notion that takeover protection reduces managerial myopia and benefits shareholders when it comes to …

Common ownership fundamentally upsets the well-settled merger enforcement ecosystem. Not only it challenges basic … principles informing merger policy such as the presumed profitability of mergers for the merging firms and the merger …-specificity of potential efficiencies but also it works against implementing tools and presumptions in merger practice such as …

holders are more likely to vote in favor of the merger proposal. Our results suggest the presence of coordination of decisions …