Performance of Mergers and Acquisitions based on the Event Study Method

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10.2991/icassr-15.2016.23How to use a DOI?

Keywords

M&A performance; event study; the ST companies

Abstract

All the M&A events which targets are ST companies in the A-share market of Shanghai and Shenzhen stock from 2007 to 2011 are selected as the research samples. This study applies event study method to calculate cumulative abnormal returns (CAR) which are to measure the short-term market performances of companies which M&A targets are ST companies. First, in this paper, the result shows that the short-term market performance of the companies which conduct the M&A activities is rising for the first time in the event announcement five days before and after. Further, comparing the short-term market performance of state companies and non-state companies, the result shows that the short-term market performance of state companies is significantly better than non-state companies.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhu-qing Zheng
AU  - Chi Xie
PY  - 2016/08
DA  - 2016/08
TI  - Performance of Mergers and Acquisitions based on the Event Study Method
BT  - Proceedings of the 3d International Conference on Applied Social Science Research
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 80
EP  - 82
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icassr-15.2016.23
DO  - 10.2991/icassr-15.2016.23
ID  - Zheng2016/08
ER  -