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This paper shows that country-level differences in creditor protection affect bond performance around cross-border M&A announcements. Using Eurobonds and a global sample of 1,100 cross-border M&As, we find that the bondholders of bidding firms respond more positively to deals that expose their...
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We propose that the disaggregation quality (DQ) of 10-K reports, which measures the detail of accounting information based on a count of non-missing Compustat line items, is valuable in predicting firms' future performance. Empirical results show that firms with higher DQ have higher subsequent...
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This paper studies how institutional characteristics of Specified Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) are related to their post-merger survival. SPACs are unique financial firms that conduct the IPO with the solely purpose to use the proceeds to acquire another private company. Paper finds...
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This paper studies how institutional characteristics of Specified Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) are related to their post-merger survival. SPACs are unique financial firms that conduct the IPO with the solely purpose to use the proceeds to acquire another private company. Paper finds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011567362
major European firms listed in the Eurostoxx 600 index. We find that equity returns (CDS spread) decreased (increased) more …
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major European firms listed in the Eurostoxx 600 index. We find that equity returns (CDS spreads) decreased (increased) more …
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We investigate firms' disclosure behavior around index recompositions. Our evidence shows that firms moving up to the … Russell 1000 disclose significantly more positive firm-initiated, discretionary news prior to index recompositions, as …
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We investigate the impact on firms of joining the S&P 500 index from 1997 to 2017. We find that the positive … announcement effect on the stock price of index inclusion has disappeared and the long-run impact of index inclusion has become … policies change with index inclusion. For instance, payout policies of firms joining the index become more similar to the …
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stocks of the DAX30 index) we find that the the average correlation between these variables is -0.193. We develop modified …
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