Which board characteristics matter in acquisitions?

We study 477 randomly-selected acquisitions from the period of 1998 to 2009. We investigated the effect of corporate governance on the acquirer firm performance by documenting the short run cumulative abnormal returns during the respective period of acquisition announcements, and determining the...

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Main Authors: Bay, Maurice Min Long, Chew, Terence Wei Xin, Kwan, Sik Hin
Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/43974