Abstract Banking in South Africa is known for its small number of companies that operate as
an oligopoly. This paper presents a strategic fit assessment of mergers and acquisitions …

This article shows that country-level differences in creditor protection affect bond
performance around cross-border M&A announcements. Using Eurobonds and a global …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the voluntary horizontal M&A impact on
operating performance in Nigeria between 1995 and 2012 under different complementary …

This study develops a difference‐in‐differences analysis to assess whether trading onset of
credit default swaps (CDS) on a firm's debt improves price informativeness in the stock …

To solve challenges occurred in the existence of large sets of data, recent improvements of
machine learning furnish promising results. Here to pro-pose a tool for predicting lesser …

Banking in China is well-known for being extremely fragmented, thus making the analysis of
the sector not a straightforward task. This study aims to explore the strategic fit of potential …

There is a growing literature on how the beneficial impacts of horizontal mergers and
acquisitions (M&A) should be measured. Thus far, however, there have been few studies …

In this globalizing world, the search for predictions of asset returns across financial markets
has challenged practitioners and academics for decades. Aware of this issue importance in …

This study examines the contribution of credit default swaps (CDS) to price discovery in the
run-up period preceding an acquisition announcement. We find that the CDS market plays a …

Artificial intelligence has the potential to fundamentally change many industries, including
the finance industry. By now, there has been no radical evolution in the way Mergers and …