"Cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CBM&As) activity continues to excite interest among academics and practicing managers, and has become an important vehicle for firms' internationalization and corporate restructuring over the past three decades. Despite the huge volume of global CBM&A...

Piotroski’s (2000) Fscore has become increasingly important to investment managers and analysts as a simple measure of a company’s financial strength. However how it changes over time, and in particular how it reacts under different economic conditions, has not been considered until now. It...