Merger Momentum and Investor Sentiment: The Stock Market Reaction to Merger Announcements
Preprint
- 1 January 2003
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
This paper examines the effects of mergers on bidding firms' stock prices. We find evidence of merger momentum: bidder stock prices are more likely to increasKeywords
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