This article examines announcement effects of 240 international joint ventures undertaken by firms to ascertain their impact on shareholders' wealth. The positive-multinational-network hypothesis suggests that the market reaction should be related to the option value of the venture. To test the...

Following two decades of discussion, the border adjustment tax briefly emerged as part of proposed U.S. corporate tax reform in early 2017. While heavily debated, little empirical evidence exists regarding the border adjustment tax. We take advantage of the period during which the border...

Situations in which a firm is taken over by another and then subsequently spun off are of interest, because it is not clear whether the spin off is the reversal of a bad decision or the second part of a deliberate action to extract value from the target firm. To explore these issues, we analyse...

This paper examines changes in acquirer and target companies' Credit Default Swap (CDS) spreads as a proxy for default risk around official mergers and acquisitions (M&A) announce-ments. Related literature extensively documents wealth effects triggered by M&A from the shareholders' perspective,...