IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cup/jfinqa/v18y1983i02p149-162_01.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Abnormal Returns from Merger Profiles

Author

Listed:
  • Wansley, James W.
  • Roenfeldt, Rodney L.
  • Cooley, Philip L.

Abstract

Several studies indicate the presence of large abnormal returns accruing to shareholders of merged firms in the period immediately before the merger. For example, Mandelker [18] reports that stockholders of acquired firms earn abnormal returns of approximately 14 percent in the seven months preceding merger. Franks, Broyles, and Hecht [15] find abnormal returns of 26 percent for British firms during the four months prior to merger; Elgers and Clark [11] report 43 percent abnormal returns accruing over two years before merger to shareholders of acquired firms.

Suggested Citation

  • Wansley, James W. & Roenfeldt, Rodney L. & Cooley, Philip L., 1983. "Abnormal Returns from Merger Profiles," Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Cambridge University Press, vol. 18(2), pages 149-162, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jfinqa:v:18:y:1983:i:02:p:149-162_01
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S002210900001084X/type/journal_article
    File Function: link to article abstract page
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Sorensen, Donald E., 2000. "Characteristics of merging firms," Journal of Economics and Business, Elsevier, vol. 52(5), pages 423-433.
    2. Aigbe Akhigbe & Jeff Madura & Ann Whyte, 2004. "Partial Anticipation and the Gains to Bank Merger Targets," Journal of Financial Services Research, Springer;Western Finance Association, vol. 26(1), pages 55-71, August.
    3. Camilo José Vázquez Ordas, 1992. "Perfil característico de las empresas españolas objetivo de fusiones," Investigaciones Economicas, Fundación SEPI, vol. 16(3), pages 489-499, September.
    4. Ronan G. Powell, 2004. "Takeover Prediction Models and Portfolio Strategies: A Multinomial Approach," Multinational Finance Journal, Multinational Finance Journal, vol. 8(1-2), pages 35-72, March-Jun.
    5. Gordon Gemmill & Dylan C. Thomas, 2002. "Noise Trading, Costly Arbitrage, and Asset Prices: Evidence from Closed‐end Funds," Journal of Finance, American Finance Association, vol. 57(6), pages 2571-2594, December.
    6. Pierre-Xavier Meschi & Emmanuel Metais, 2002. "Investissements français aux États-Unis, stratégies de croissance externe et réactions du marché boursier," Revue Finance Contrôle Stratégie, revues.org, vol. 5(1), pages 129-165, March.
    7. Harold A. Black & Raphael W. Bostic & Breck L. Robinson & Robert L. Schweitzer, 2005. "Do CRA‐Related Events Affect Shareholder Wealth? The Case of Bank Mergers," The Financial Review, Eastern Finance Association, vol. 40(4), pages 575-586, November.
    8. Devina Ivo Mahendra & Nadia Asandimitra Haryono, 2017. "The Determinant of the Possibility of Merger in Indonesia," International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Econjournals, vol. 7(3), pages 62-68.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cup:jfinqa:v:18:y:1983:i:02:p:149-162_01. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Kirk Stebbing (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.cambridge.org/jfq .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.