Takeovers after "Takeovers"

Andy Cosh and Alan Hughes

Working Papers from Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge

Abstract: We review five decades of takeover actively in the UK. We assess the relative characteristics of acquiring and acquired companies and the performance impacts of merger using both accounting and share price based measures. We conclude that the fundamental conclusions reached by Ajit Singh about takeovers and the market for corporate control in his seminal contributions of the 1970s remain true in the light of subsequent work.

Keywords: Takeovers; Natural Selection; Market for Corporate Control; mergers; acquisitions; corporate governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-06
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