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An accounting examination of the long-run performance of Greek acquiring firms

Pazarskis, Michail; Lyroudi, Katerina; Pantelidis, … - In: International Journal of Financial Services Management 5 (2011) 2, pp. 159-176

This paper examines empirically the impact of M&As on the post-merger performance of Greek merger-involved firms in the long-run perspective. The post-merger performance of an extensive sample of acquiring listed firms is investigated with accounting data analysis. For the purpose of the study,...

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The perception of banks' mergers and acquisitions by bank employees

Mylonakis, John - In: International Journal of Financial Services Management 1 (2006) 2/3, pp. 205-214

larger and more powerful. One out of four mergers and acquisitions in Greece took place in the banking sector, which was also …

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Efficiency and productivity growth in Taiwanese banking

Yeh, Tsai-lien - In: International Journal of Financial Services Management 3 (2008) 3/4, pp. 269-282

Do mergers promote efficiency in the banking industry? A Data Envelopment Analysis in this study revealed that … mergers exhibited increased technical efficiency due to economies of scale, as proposed in earlier studies by Berger and …. Mergers can increase the size of banks, and large banks are better able to develop fee-based off-balance-sheet activities …

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Identifying synergies ahead of mergers and acquisitions

Knyphausen-Aufsess, Dodo zu; Koeppen, Jens; Schweizer, Lars - In: International Journal of Financial Services Management 2 (2007) 4, pp. 344-360

Most merger and acquisition activities destroy value. One reason for this is that acquisition premiums tend to be too high in relation to the synergies that motivated the premiums paid. In this paper, we illustrate the performance implications of overstated synergies and develop a ten-step...

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Mergers and acquisitions in the Malaysian banking industry: technical and scale efficiency effects

Sufian, Fadzlan - In: International Journal of Financial Services Management 2 (2007) 4, pp. 304-326

Envelopment Analysis (DEA), this paper investigates the effects of mergers and acquisitions on Malaysian banks' technical and …

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Identifying synergies ahead of mergers and acquisitions

Knyphausen-Aufsess, Dodo zu; Koeppen, Jens; Schweizer, Lars - In: International Journal of Financial Services Management 2 (2007) 4, pp. 344-360

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Mergers and acquisitions in the Malaysian banking industry: technical and scale efficiency effects

Sufian, Fadzlan - In: International Journal of Financial Services Management 2 (2007) 4, pp. 304-326

Envelopment Analysis (DEA), this paper investigates the effects of mergers and acquisitions on Malaysian banks' technical and …

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Reverse takeovers: an alternative to the IPO?

Dasilas, Apostolos; Koulakiotis, Athanasios; Vutirakis, … - In: International Journal of Financial Services Management 4 (2009) 1, pp. 11-20

We examine the stock price behaviour of 23 Reverse Takeovers (RTs) that took place in the UK. A RT refers to a private company that acquires a publicly traded company in the stock exchange that is generally a cash shell. We examine the effects of the RTs on the wealth of public company's...

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Determinants of merger activity: evidence from India

Agrawal, Madhuri; Sensarma, Rudra - In: International Journal of Financial Services Management 2 (2007) 4, pp. 277-288

. Departing from the existing literature, we proxy merger activity by the occurrence of mergers and the number of mergers. The … determinants of merger activity. However, unlike existing studies, no evidence is found to support the role of mergers as a …

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Predicting Greek mergers and acquisitions: a new approach

Tsagkanos, Athanasios; Georgopoulos, Antonios; … - In: International Journal of Financial Services Management 2 (2007) 4, pp. 289-303

mergers and acquisitions. The results show that J4.8 outperforms the classical regression tree, although the predictive …

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