This study examines the relationship between price movements of target firms' stocks and behaviors of local individual, local institutional, and foreign investors in trading target firms' stocks around mergers and acquisitions announcements in Korea. Results reveal that the average abnormal...

This study examines foreign investors' trading behaviors around merger and acquisition (M&A) announcements in the Korean stock market (both KOSPI and KOSDAQ markets). We find evidence that foreign investors are more likely to buy target stocks with larger wealth effects on the KOSPI market. In...