The central hypothesis of this study is that relationships develop systematically between referees and teams, and affect referees’ decisions. Referees’ travel distance to respective stadiums and count of matches refereed for respective teams are used to measure long-term relationships. We...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the short‐ and long‐term wealth effects of domestic and cross‐border acquisition announcements of banks in Latin American. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses the event study methodology to investigate the short‐term wealth...