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For students and specialists in the field of mergers and acquisitions, this new book brings together for the first time the seminal and most recent articles from the world's leading experts in the area.
Providing key information and debate covering all aspects of the technicalities and strategy of mergers and acquisitions this is a comprehensive and important collection of readings.

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Overview

For students and specialists in the field of mergers and acquisitions, this new book brings together for the first time the seminal and most recent articles from the world's leading experts in the area.
Providing key information and debate covering all aspects of the technicalities and strategy of mergers and acquisitions this is a comprehensive and important collection of readings.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781557864093
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 12/12/1994
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 364
  • Product dimensions: 6.87 (w) x 9.70 (h) x 1.08 (d)

Meet the Author

Patrick Gaughan is a Professor of Finance and Economics and President of Economatrix Research Associates, New York, USA. He teaches Mergers and Acquisitions at Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA.

Table of Contents

List of Figures.

List of Tables.

List of Contributors.

Introduction: The Fourth Merger Wave and Beyond (Patrick A. Gaughan).

Takeovers: Their Causes and Consequences (Michael C. Jensen).

The Hubris Hypothesis of Corporate Takeovers (Richard Roll).

Do Bad Bidders Become Good Targets? (Mark L. Mitchell and Kenneth Lehn).

Operating Performance in Leveraged Buyouts: Evidence from 1985-1989 (Tim C. Opler).

The Shareholders Gains from Leveraged Cash-outs: Some Preliminary Evidence (Robert T. Kleiman).

Leveraged Buyouts: Wealth Created or Wealth Redistributed? (Kenneth Lehn and Annette Poulsen).

Original Issue High Yield Bonds: Aging Analyses of Defaults, Exchanges, and Calls (Paul Asquith, David W. Mullins, Jr., and Eric D. Wolff).

Returns and Volatility of Low Grade Bonds: 1977-1989 (Marshall E. Blume, Donald B. Keim, and Sandeep A. Patel).

The Decline in Credit Quality of New-issue Junk Bonds (Barrie A. Wigmore).

Setting the Record Straight on Junk Bonds: A Review of the Research on Default Rates and Returns (Edward I. Altman).

Proxy Contests and the Governance of Publicly Held Corporations (Harry DeAngelo and Linda DeAngelo).

Shareholder Activism and Share Values: The Causes and Consequences of Countersolicitations Against Management Antitakeover Proposals (John Pound).

Equity Carve-outs (Katherine Schipper and Abbie Smith).

Diverstitures: Mistakes or Learning? (J. Fred Weston).

The Returns to Acquiring Firms in Tender Offers: Evidence from Three Decades (Gregg A. Jarrell and Annette B. Poulsen).

The Market for Corporate Control: The Empirical Evidence Since 1980 (Gregg A. Jarrell, James A. Brickley, and Jeffry M. Netter).

The Effects of Antitakeover Amendments on Takeover Activity: Some Direct Evidence (John Pound).

The Information Effects of Takeover Bids and Resistance (John Pound).

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