Hodgkinson, Lynn; Partington, Graham H. - In: Journal of Business Finance & Accounting 35 (2008-01) 1-2, pp. 102-126
The motives for takeovers in the UK are investigated by examining the correlations between wealth gains for the target and both acquirer wealth gains and total wealth gains. The results are sensitive to whether the gains are measured over a long or short window, the method of measuring abnormal...