Research Catalog

Title

Readings in mergers and acquisitions / edited by Patrick A. Gaughan.

Publication

Cambridge, MA, USA : Blackwell, 1994.

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Additional Authors

Gaughan, Patrick A.

Description

xi, 364 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subject

Consolidation and merger of corporations > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction: The Fourth Merger Wave and Beyond / Patrick A. Gaughan -- 2. Takeovers: Their Causes and Consequences / Michael C. Jensen -- 3. The Hubris Hypothesis of Corporate Takeovers / Richard Roll -- 4. Do Bad Bidders Become Good Targets? / Mark L. Mitchell and Kenneth Lehn -- 5. Operating Performance in Leveraged Buyouts: Evidence from 1985-1989 / Tim C. Opler -- 6. The Shareholder Gains from Leveraged Cash-outs: Some Preliminary Evidence / Robert T. Kleiman -- 7. Leveraged Buyouts: Wealth Created or Wealth Redistributed? / Kenneth Lehn and Annette Poulsen -- 8. Original Issue High Yield Bonds: Aging Analyses of Defaults, Exchanges, and Calls / Paul Asquith, David W. Mullins, Jr. and Eric D. Wolff -- 9. Returns and Volatility of Low Grade Bonds: 1977-1989 / Marshall E. Blume, Donald B. Keim and Sandeep A. Patel -- 10. The Decline in Credit Quality of New-issue Junk Bonds / Barrie A. Wigmore.
• 11. Setting the Record Straight on Junk Bonds: A Review of the Research on Default Rates and Returns / Edward I. Altman -- 12. Proxy Contests and the Governance of Publicly Held Corporations / Harry DeAngelo and Linda DeAngelo -- 13. Shareholder Activism and Share Values: The Causes and Consequences of Countersolicitations Against Management Antitakeover Proposals / John Pound -- 14. Equity Carve-outs / Katherine Schipper and Abbie Smith -- 15. Divestitures: Mistakes or Learning? / J. Fred Weston -- 16. The Returns to Acquiring Firms in Tender Offers: Evidence from Three Decades / Gregg A. Jarrell and Annette B. Poulsen -- 17. The Market for Corporate Control: The Empirical Evidence Since 1980 / Gregg A. Jarrell, James A. Brickley and Jeffry M. Netter -- 18. The Effects of Antitakeover Amendments on Takeover Activity: Some Direct Evidence / John Pound -- 19. The Information Effects of Takeover Bids and Resistance / John Pound.

ISBN

• 155786408X (hard : acid-free paper)
• 1557864098 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

94006135

OCLC

ocm29952784

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries