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Top-tier advisors and the market feedback dynamics in cross-border M&As

Samer Adra, Malika Hamadi, Jiayi Yuan

International Review of Financial Analysis, Volume: 86, Start page: 102495

Swansea University Author: Jiayi Yuan

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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.irfa.2023.102495

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We provide evidence that the presence of top-tier advisors increases managers' propensity to withdraw from cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CBAs) with poor market returns around the announcement. This effect is stronger for private target acquisitions, in which information asymmetry is ex...

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Published in: International Review of Financial Analysis
ISSN: 1057-5219
Published: Elsevier BV 2023
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