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The Consolidation of the Global Brewing Industry and Wealth Effects from Mergers and Acquisitions

Mehta, Ramit - 2013

The brewing industry has recently experienced increased merger activity. This paper analyzes the shortterm wealth … effects of horizontal mergers and acquisitions on acquirers in the brewing industry. Based on a sample of 69 takeover …

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Wealth Transfer Effects between Stockholders and Bondholders

Imbierowicz, Björn - 2013

Prior research has addressed the question of whether certain events cause a transfer of wealth between stockholders and bondholders but does not control for the events' impacts on firms' credit risk. This may explain why many studies fail to identify wealth transfers. By employing announcements...

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Deconstructing Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Scandals in Pharmaceutical Industry

Khan, Dr Hassaan - 2014

This study examines the role of mergers and acquisitions in offsetting adverse market reaction to corporate scandals and litigation on share price and therefore, shareholder wealth creation for pharmaceutical companies. Using a sample of 10 major pharmaceutical companies with financial data from...

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Mergers & Acquisitions and the Acquirer-Target Cultural Differences

Fong, Wai Ming - 2014

We investigate the impacts of cultural environment on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the U.S. To measure the cultural environment of a firm, we use several variables of cultural dimension widely adopted in the literature, such as the percentage of religious adherents and the percentage of...

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Cracking the Corwin Conundrum and Other Mysteries Regarding Shareholder Approval of Mergers and Acquisitions

Gevurtz, Franklin A. - 2018

declared that an informed and un-coerced shareholder vote in favor of a merger should lead courts to look skeptically at claims … voting on a proposed merger …

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Political Corruption and Mergers and Acquisitions

Nguyen, Nam - 2019

This research examines the relation between political corruption and mergers and acquisitions (M&As). We find that local corruption increases firm acquisitiveness but decreases firm targetiveness. The levels of corruption in acquirer areas relate positively to the bid premiums and negatively to...

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Social Trust Distance in Mergers and Acquisitions

Lin, Tse-Chun - 2019

-level measure of cultural trust based on the World Values Survey data and find that a larger social trust distance between two …

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Collective Bargaining and Mergers and Acquisitions Activity around the World

Ahmad, Muhammad Farooq - 2019

of mergers and acquisitions around the world …

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Havenly Acquisitions

Col, Burcin - 2019

We explore the valuation, tax and post-merger performance consequences of M&As with tax haven firms. Using an …

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Venture Capital Investments and Merger and Acquisition Activity Around the World

Phillips, Gordon M. - 2017

world. We find evidence of a strong positive association between VC investments and lagged M&A activity, consistent with the … engage in more deals. We also explore the effects of country-level pro-takeover legislation passed internationally (positive … post-law changes in VC activity. VC activity intensifies after enactment of country-level takeover friendly legislation and …

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