...Ioannis Tampakoudis; Michail Nerantzidis; Demetres Subeniotis; Apostolos Soutsas; Nikolaos Kiosses Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the wealth implications of bank mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the unique Greek setting given the triple crisis phenomenon – banking...

...Hao Li; Edward Jones; Pierre de Gioia Carabellese Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether ex ante board connections and director retention result in agency costs to target company shareholders in the form of reduced payment in mergers and acquisitions transaction...

... be contacted at: cdanso@calstatela.edu 12 07 2017 30 07 2018 06 04 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Trading Mergers and acquisitions Portfolio management Mutual fund performance G10 G11 G14 G23 G34...

...Jin Young Yang; Reuben Segara; Jingwei Feng Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between price movements of target firms’ stocks and behaviors of local individual, local institutional and foreign investors in trading target firms’ stocks around mergers and acquisitions...

... and Vijh, 1997 ; Gregory, 1997). However, Mitchell and Stafford (2000) argue that long-run returns to acquirers are not significantly different from zero. Each merger or acquisition is not a random event and interest has naturally turned to attempting to distinguish successful acquirers from those...