Motives, default risk and valuation errors in corporate takeovers

Motivated by the plethora of theories in explaining the conflicting evidence on the acquiring firms’ profitability after a merger, this thesis examines how market conditions affect the most prominent takeover motives and the acquirers’ abnormal returns and analyse changes in acquiring firms’ default...

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Main Author: Sophocleous, Eleni Demetriou
Published: Durham University 2014
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.600954