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Financial Characteristics of Merged Firms: A Multivariate Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

Donald L. Stevens
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The FTC reported 22,517 corporate acquisitions during the 1960s compared with 7200 for the period, 1940–1959. The increased employment of this method of corporate growth has generated a number of studies explaining certain segments of the merger movement. Attempts have been made to explain why firms merge, how firms merge, and how mergers have affected subsequent performance of firms. Mergers have been described as consummated to avoid bankruptcy (for the acquired firm), to capitalize upon managerial inefficiencies, to gain from valuation discrepancies, to achieve portfolio diversification, and for synergistic purposes and many other reasons.

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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , March 1973 , pp. 149 - 158
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1973

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