This research analyzes a theory of merger financing that indicates that the terms of payment for target shares should be used to optimally influence the postmerger liquidity and capital structure of the combined firm. In an empirical test on a large sample of mergers, the stock market reaction...

Within the context of fundamentally efficient markets, this paper demonstrates analytically how short sellers can put non-transitory downward pressure on the stock market prices and intrinsic values of companies that need to raise external capital because of insufficient internal liquidity. The...