We examine whether corporate rivals react to industry-specific competition-shocks by increasing product differentiation or, alternatively, by lowering differentiation to capture scale-economies. As rival reactions affect intraindustry cash-flow correlations, these two hypotheses imply...

In the 1990s, European merger regulation (EMR) was biased against foreign acquirers, especially if the deal harmed domestic rivals (i.e., protectionism). In 2002, the Court of First Instance overturned three prohibitions by the European Commission (EC) and criticized its economic analysis. These...

In the 1990s, European merger regulation (EMR) was biased against foreign acquirers, especially if the deal harmed domestic rivals (i.e., protectionism). In 2002, the Court of First Instance overturned three prohibitions by the European Commission (EC) and criticized its economic analysis. These...

This article revisits the protectionism hypothesis related to the European merger regulation (EMR). In the 1990s, EMR was biased against foreign acquirers, especially if the deal harmed domestic rivals (i.e., protectionism). At the end of the 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st, the...

This study examines whether the content of firms' Security Exchange Commission (SEC) filings submitted for their merger and acquisition transactions are affected by investor reactions to the initial public announcement of the deals. This research design allows us to test the investor feedback...

Roll R² (1988) concludes that our ability to explain stock returns is modest: close to 80% of the daily stock returns variance (65% for monthly stock returns) remain unexplained by a combination of priced factors and a portfolio of industry peers, even controlling for firm specific news...