Bank Mergers in the Emerging Markets : Are Market Returns to Merger Announcements indicative of Future Realised Gains in Performance?

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between realised performance gains and short, intermediate and long-term market returns of target and bidder banks in Latin America and Southeast Asia. The results of this analysis find that markets in industrialised countries react differentl...

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Main Author: Van Maanen, Floris
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2005
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28026/
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description The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between realised performance gains and short, intermediate and long-term market returns of target and bidder banks in Latin America and Southeast Asia. The results of this analysis find that markets in industrialised countries react differently to performance and transaction-specific variables for bidder and target banks. These differences arise for variables representing acquisition of control, industry concentration, and cross-border mergers. The results however, also find that stock transactions and firm size are not significantly related to share price changes for both acquiring and acquired firms. The analysis also finds that the explanatory power of market reactions to merger announcements tends to decrease with time in industrialised markets, and increase with time in emerging markets, indicating that market inefficiencies in emerging markets effect the ability for the stock market to accurate predict future performance gains. Although it is found that the market reaction to merger announcements is significantly related to reductions in operating expenses and gains in return on equity for both bidder and target banks, the results conclude that the market is not able to accurately predict overall performance gains within the first two years after a merger transaction.
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spelling nottingham-280262017-10-19T14:11:58Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28026/ Bank Mergers in the Emerging Markets : Are Market Returns to Merger Announcements indicative of Future Realised Gains in Performance? Van Maanen, Floris The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between realised performance gains and short, intermediate and long-term market returns of target and bidder banks in Latin America and Southeast Asia. The results of this analysis find that markets in industrialised countries react differently to performance and transaction-specific variables for bidder and target banks. These differences arise for variables representing acquisition of control, industry concentration, and cross-border mergers. The results however, also find that stock transactions and firm size are not significantly related to share price changes for both acquiring and acquired firms. The analysis also finds that the explanatory power of market reactions to merger announcements tends to decrease with time in industrialised markets, and increase with time in emerging markets, indicating that market inefficiencies in emerging markets effect the ability for the stock market to accurate predict future performance gains. Although it is found that the market reaction to merger announcements is significantly related to reductions in operating expenses and gains in return on equity for both bidder and target banks, the results conclude that the market is not able to accurately predict overall performance gains within the first two years after a merger transaction. 2005 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28026/1/VanMaanenloris.pdf Van Maanen, Floris (2005) Bank Mergers in the Emerging Markets : Are Market Returns to Merger Announcements indicative of Future Realised Gains in Performance? [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)]
spellingShingle Van Maanen, Floris
Bank Mergers in the Emerging Markets : Are Market Returns to Merger Announcements indicative of Future Realised Gains in Performance?
title Bank Mergers in the Emerging Markets : Are Market Returns to Merger Announcements indicative of Future Realised Gains in Performance?
title_full Bank Mergers in the Emerging Markets : Are Market Returns to Merger Announcements indicative of Future Realised Gains in Performance?
title_fullStr Bank Mergers in the Emerging Markets : Are Market Returns to Merger Announcements indicative of Future Realised Gains in Performance?
title_full_unstemmed Bank Mergers in the Emerging Markets : Are Market Returns to Merger Announcements indicative of Future Realised Gains in Performance?
title_short Bank Mergers in the Emerging Markets : Are Market Returns to Merger Announcements indicative of Future Realised Gains in Performance?
title_sort bank mergers in the emerging markets : are market returns to merger announcements indicative of future realised gains in performance?
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28026/