Author： Aggarwal Raj Akhigbe Aigbe McNulty James
Publisher： Springer Publishing Company
ISSN： 0920-8550
Source： Journal of Financial Services Research, Vol.30, Iss.3, 2006-12, pp. : 265-286
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Abstract
We analyze 271 bank mergers for 1986–2001 to attempt to determine if differences among acquirers in profit efficiency are priced in financial markets. We find that the acquirer’s pre-merger profit efficiency (as well as its experience in handling other mergers) has positive effects on the wealth of the acquiring bank’s shareholders. We also find that more profit efficient acquiring banks produce lower abnormal returns for the target, suggesting that well managed (i.e., more profit-efficient) banks are less likely to overpay when they enter into a merger agreement. Financial market participants apparently take something akin to the econometric concept of profit efficiency into account when they make decisions about bank stock purchases and sales around merger announcement dates.
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