This study investigates how policy uncertainty affects the acquisition process during the post-announcement period. Utilizing a sample of Australian mining sector acquisitions over 1998-2017, we find that rising policy uncertainty after initial acquisition announcements is associated with delays...

We examine the wealth effect of reverse takeover transactions to shareholders of shell companies. Using three return proxies, including buy-and-hold return, expert-based return and implied premium ratio, we find evidence strongly consistent with a significant gain to shareholders of shell...

This study investigates how policy uncertainty affects firms' asset acquisitions and explores whether deal structure matters in mitigating uncertainty-related costs. Using a unique hand-collected sample of asset acquisitions with a mixture of staged and non-staged transactions, we document that,...