This article demonstrates that the risk profile of acquiring banks’ common stock changes in the aftermath of a merger announcement when examining 177 large merger deals in the United States spanning from 1998 to 2010 and inclusive of the fifth and sixth merger waves. There is a tendency for...

This paper examines time-varying stock price and volatility dynamics of constituent industry sector indices in the Shanghai Stock Exchange. It finds that market beta risk is priced in the time-series movements of stock prices and responds positively to rises in non-diversifiable risk. The asset...