Corporate Governance and Bidder Abnormal Returns in M&A

we examine how corporate governance influences long-term and short-term bidder returns from China’s domestic mergers and acquisitions during 2010-2016. This paper examines a range of corporate governance measures while controlling for bidder and deal characteristics. Our long-term regression analyse...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cheng Yao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2017-01-01
Series:ITM Web of Conferences
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1051/itmconf/20171204025
Description
Summary:we examine how corporate governance influences long-term and short-term bidder returns from China’s domestic mergers and acquisitions during 2010-2016. This paper examines a range of corporate governance measures while controlling for bidder and deal characteristics. Our long-term regression analyses show that the positive impact of executive ownership remains. Independent directors record a negative effect on abnormal returns.)
ISSN:2271-2097