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Download or read book Performance Implications of Participating in an Industry Merger Wave written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thesis the performance implications for acquirers participating in an industry merger wave were studied from a short-term and long-term perspective. In line with findings from previous research, it was observed that acquisition performance tends to decrease over the course of an industry merger wave while following a U-shaped pattern, which indicates that acquisition performance is lowest at the peak of an industry merger wave but slightly improves thereafter. These findings were confirmed using both short-term abnormal returns and long-term industry-adjusted returns. Thus, with respect to the performance implications associated with the relative position of an acquisition within a wave, it appears that there exists a strong link between market expectations formed immediately after the announcement of a deal and firms' long-term stock performance, a link which has generally been debated in mergers and acquisitions research. Additionally, as in the study of McNamara, Haleblian, and Dykes (2008), potential moderating effects on acquisition performance related to industry and firm characteristics were analyzed. While not all of these moderating effects showed consistent results across all alternative performance measures, a newly introduced variable based on acquisition rhythm was identified to be significant in both the short-term and long-term models, which provided evidence that the variability in acquisition rate seems to be an influential factor for acquisition performance in the context of industry merger waves. After rerunning all models on a more recent dataset covering ten new industry merger waves between 2001 and 2012, it was found that surprisingly few of the initially identified effects could be reconfirmed.