Risk and the Market’s Reaction to M&A Announcements

We estimate how an acquiring firm’s risk changes depending on whether the market initially judges the acquisition to be neutral, strongly negative, or strongly positive for the shareholders of the acquiring firm. We found that for an average neutral acquisition, the annualized standard deviation of...

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Main Authors: Ye Cai, Hersh Shefrin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-07-01
Series:Journal of Risk and Financial Management
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/14/7/334

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