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The paper provides evidence, in an emerging market context in the Pacific Basin, that the CEO duality leadership structure of a firm does impact the strategic decisions made by the firm. Specifically, firms that are run by CEO duality structure are perceived by the capital market to be better...
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The present study examines the impact of mode of payment used in cross border mergers and acquisitions by Indian companies on the abnormal returns generated on account of announcement and the post merger operating and financial performance. The study considers the cross border M & A undertaken...
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We study the accounting and stock performance of 4,547 US acquisitions during 1989 and 2008. We categorise acquisitions into four types based on the four possible combinations of positive or negative abnormal stock performance and abnormal accounting performance. First, we compare the bidder,...
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In this article we form the simple prediction that mispricing encourages traders to collect costly information that guides managerial decisions at corporate level. Our findings support this prediction based on evidence derived from both the US market for corporate control and the overall...
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announcements of takeover rumors that do not materialize. Such speculative news may hurt productivity because uncertainty and threat … effects of speculative financial news and the costs of takeover threats. …
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Until 2001, certain stock acquisitions could be accounted for as pooling-of-interests. There were concerns that pooling was associated with earnings fixation and weak corporate governance. I investigate the cross-sectional variation in the purchase-pooling choice and its association with...
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We propose that an active takeover market provides incentives by offering acquisition opportunities to successful … and takeover threat. As a result, the takeover market is not sufficiently liquid and too few takeovers occur. Furthermore …, the liquidity in the takeover and managerial labour markets are inversely related. When poaching successful managers …
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Over the past 20 years, there have been several important changes in Japanese takeover regulations. The changes have …
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adopted corporate governance mechanism in Japan is still not as effective as in other developed markets such as USA and might …
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