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Shareholder Optimism

In: Understanding Mergers and Acquisitions in the 21st Century

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  • Enrico Diecidue
  • Jeroen Ven
  • Utz Weitzel

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In the last two decades, significant resources have been spent on corporate mergers. At the beginning of the 1980s, US mergers and acquisitions (M&As) amounted to an average of 3.6% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) (Weston et al., 2004). By 1995, M&A activity has reached 5% of GDP and equated to about 48% of non-residential gross investment (Andrade et al., 2001). Records peaked in 1999 at 15.4% of GDP (Weston et al., 2004) and even after the downturn that followed in the USA a total of $1.24 trillion (and $2.56 trillion globally) changed hands in 2006 alone.

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  • Enrico Diecidue & Jeroen Ven & Utz Weitzel, 2013. "Shareholder Optimism," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Understanding Mergers and Acquisitions in the 21st Century, chapter 6, pages 148-164, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-27807-4_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137278074_6
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