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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Deal Characteristics"”.
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Research and Development of risk arbitrage trading systems
… acquirer for the target, relative size of the deal to the size of the acquirer and target, and deal consummation time. We utilized this information to develop a merger return prediction model that predicts a merger's return given various deal characteristics. We constructed several portfolios, …
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Regression analysis of oncology drug licensing deal values
… to explain wide variations in drug licensing deal value by using regression modeling to describe and predict the relationship between oncology drug deal characteristics and their licensing deal values. Although the reasons for large variances in value between deals may not be immediately …
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Behavioral Finance: Factors Influencing Angel Investor Decisions
… this dissertation examines angel investor and deal characteristics including demographics, experience, perception of the management team, the source that led the entrepreneur to the angel investor, and syndication status. The dissertation finds that angels’ decisions are influenced by rational …
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Deal Innovations In Mergers And Acquisitions: Do Go-Shop Provisions Create Real Benefits?
… equity boom in the mid-2000s emerged a new M&A deal technology - the "go-shop" provision. In this paper, I address the question whether go-shop provisions are utilized by target managers to pursue private benefits or are used to protect the fiduciary interests of the target shareholder. I …
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THE IMPACT OF MANAGERIAL OVERCONFIDENCE AND INVESTOR SENTIMENT ON BIDDERS’ ABNORMAL RETURNS
… managers destroy shareholder value (in public deals) or whether their actions generally lead to lower wealth effects (in private deals) relative to rational bidders. Bidders’ short and long-term performance is also examined by employing, for the first time in a UK study, three different …
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Sources of Value in Mergers and Acquisitions
… to the combined wealth effect of a takeover deal. The overall value of the acquisition deal is a sum of the impacts of these factors on the combined value. The research significantly contributes to new knowledge regarding the sources of economic benefit in a merger. There are implications for …
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Three essays on corporate governance in the hospitality industry
The hospitality industry, with its dynamic business environment, has experienced unprecedented disruption and reconfiguration due to the emergence and success of sharing economy firms and online travel agencies. This turbulence calls for effective governance structures that can motivate managers to …
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What drives private equity performance in emerging markets? An African perspective
… GP performance in Africa is persistent using the deal level approach introduced by Braun et al. (2017) that allows for a decomposition of the sources of persistence. The findings suggest that IRR performance is persistent across subsequent deals exited by the same GP and indicate that persistence …