DO STOCK MARKET PRICES AFFECT MERGERS?
Subhash C. Sharma
(Department of Economics, and Department of Finance, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, U.S.A.)
Ike Mathur
(Department of Economics, and Department of Finance, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, U.S.A.)
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Abstract
Merger activities and stock market prices tend to vary over time. An interesting issue is whether changes in stock market prices stimulate changes in merger activities, or vice versa. The results of this study, based on the Granger test for causality, indicate very strong causality going from stock market prices to merger activities. Increases in stock market prices, perhaps indicating a favourable economic environment, lead to increases in the number of mergers being completed.
Citation
Sharma, S.C. and Mathur, I. (1989), "DO STOCK MARKET PRICES AFFECT MERGERS?", Managerial Finance, Vol. 15 No. 4, pp. 40-42. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb013622
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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