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I examine whether access to the management of takeover targets at investor conferences is associated with informed … trading before these firms' takeover announcements. I find that during the one year preceding takeover announcements … investors, targets' conference presentations benefit large investors and have no impact on small investors' pre-takeover trades …
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We document a strong positive initial market reaction to merger announcements from bidders with either large earnings growth or significant earnings decline, relative to those with neutral earnings change, reflecting a U-shaped pattern between bidders’ earnings growth and announcement returns....
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This study examines whether the content of firms' Security Exchange Commission (SEC) filings submitted for their merger and acquisition transactions are affected by investor reactions to the initial public announcement of the deals. This research design allows us to test the investor feedback...
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Limited investor attention allows overvalued companies to engage in stock-financed acquisitions of listed target firms without experiencing significant reductions in existing valuations. Our robust findings show that overvalued stock-paying acquirers that are subject to limited investor...
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We provide an investor-attention-based interpretation for early announcements, complementing the signalling-based explanation of Aktas et al. (2018). We find that acquiring firms attract substantial investor attention with their early announcements. The positive relationship between early...
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This paper identifies and apportions the wealth gain realisation from a takeover event for four investor groups, which … performance from the takeover occasion. The present study results thus qualify the extant takeover research conclusion that target … firm shareholders are the ‘winners' from a takeover occasion. This research concludes that it is the informed investor who …
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This paper examines the simultaneous trading behaviour for the takeover occasion for eighteen investor classes which …' behaviour was ‘takeover driven'; it was not found to be accounted for by independent variables identified by preceding research … takeover occasion …
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