Shareholder Optimism

Enrico Diecidue, Jeroen Ven and Utz Weitzel

Chapter 6 in Understanding Mergers and Acquisitions in the 21st Century, 2013, pp 148-164 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract 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.

Keywords: Gross Domestic Product; Financial Economic; Agency Cost; Internal Project; Aspiration Level (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137278074_6

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