Do industrial and geographic diversifications have different effects on earnings management? Evidence from UK mergers and acquisitions

Mergers and Acquisitions: Effects on Shareholders Value Evidence from Nigeria

During the last decade, Nigeria has witnessed significant growth in corporate mergers and acquisitions. Reasons behind mergers and acquisitions are to syntheses and enhance the corporate tenacity (synergy). In the existing study, an attempt has been on the study of the impact of mergers and acquisitions on the shareholders wealth. The study specifically on companies which have undergone merger ...

CEO Overconfidence Effects on Mergers and Acquisitions

The purpose of the study is to extend further from the result studying overconfidence effects of CEOs on single deal of Malmendier and Tate (2008)’s article to study overconfidence effects of CEOs on multiple mergers and acquisitions. Based on the psychological and financial theories, the likelihood of overconfident CEOs acquiring a company is the net effect of two manifestations of overconfide...

Evaluating the Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions on Employees: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

The Effects of Anticipated Future Investments on Firm Value: Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions

The Effects of Anticipated Future Investments on Firm Value: Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions by Ning Zhang Business Administration Duke University Date: _____________________ Approved: __________________ Qi Chen, Supervisor __________________ Frank Ecker __________________ Per Olsson __________________ David Robinson __________________ Katherine Schipper An abstract of a dissertation sub...

The Effects of Bank Mergers and Acquisitions on Credit Availability: Evidence from Corporate Data

A large literature on the effects of bank consolidation focuses on direct efficiency gains for participating banks and market power effects. The special nature of credit markets suggests that indirect informational effects for borrowers may be generated by bank consolidation. In particular, borrowers that depend on relationship-based lending may face a reduction in credit availability because s...