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The paper examines the returns to shareholders of acquiring companies in India during the period 2003-08. The abnormal returns due to the announcement of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and return on equity funds five years before and after M&A have been examined. The study also performs a...
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Using a large database of U.S. mergers and acquisitions (M&As) announced from 2010 through 2017, we examine the effects of capital ratio (leverage) on the announcement period stock price reaction as well as on longer-term stock returns and performance, for banks, making comparisons with...
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This paper examines changes in acquirer and target companies' Credit Default Swap (CDS) spreads as a proxy for default risk around official mergers and acquisitions (M&A) announce-ments. Related literature extensively documents wealth effects triggered by M&A from the shareholders' perspective,...
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The recent merger between US Airways and American Airlines was approved by federal and state antitrust authorities … anticompetitive effects from this merger. The economics literature offers many reasons why such stock-market event studies should not … unrelated to competitive harms, such as when a merger changes expectations that one or more rivals will be “in play” (i.e., a …
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. Therefore, this study aims to close this gap by exploring the effect of merger announcements on CDS spreads empirically. A …
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the German Reorganisation Act (UmwG). A merger passed at the General Annual Meeting will not move forward as long as any …
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I conduct an event study on the proposed $26.5 billion merger between Sprint and T-Mobile. Positive and statistically … and Verizon is consistent with a market power interpretation of the merger. AT&T's returns appear unaffected by news of …
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Employing a sample of 492 merger and acquisition (M&A) announcements from 284 acquirers across North America and Europe …
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