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The Effect of Mergers and Acquisitions on Shareholder Wealth: The Case of European Banks

The International Journal of Financial Management

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Title The Effect of Mergers and Acquisitions on Shareholder Wealth: The Case of European Banks
 
Creator Diaw, Abdourahmane; Laboratoire d’Économie Dionysienb, Université Paris 8, France. Email : abdourahmane6@yahoo.fr
 
Subject Mergers and Acquisitions, Bank Mergers and Acquisition, European Banking Market
 
Description In this paper we investigate the effect of announcements of mergers and acquisitions on bank shareholder wealth. Despite the major impact of the phenomenon of mergers and acquisitions on the future of the European banking industry, there are currently few studies that investigated this area. This is largely due to the fact that it is a relatively recent phenomenon since it began to grow in 1997. Based on a sample of 97 European banks over the period 1997-2008, our study showed that the European banking mergers and acquisitions create value but all of this value created by the purchaser’s bid is received by the shareholders of the target. These appear to be the main beneficiaries of mergers and acquisition. However, shareholders of acquiring banks, meanwhile, are not harmed by the operations of mergers and acquisitions initiated by their leaders.
 
Publisher Publishing India Group
 
Date 2015-07-15
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.myresearchjournals.com/index.php/IJFM/article/view/3101
 
Source International Journal of Financial Management; Vol 4, No 4 (2014)
2229-5682
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.myresearchjournals.com/index.php/IJFM/article/view/3101/3029
 
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