Shareholder Gains During the Bank Merger Announcements in Malaysia
This paper analyzes the shareholder gains surrounding the Malaysian bank merger announcements on 29th July 1999 and 14th February 2000. Initiated by the Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) in the midst of financial crisis, the merger was not a market driven one in its real sense. In particular, this study...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English English |
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2002
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/8315/1/FEP_2002_12_IR.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper analyzes the shareholder gains surrounding the Malaysian bank merger
announcements on 29th July 1999 and 14th February 2000. Initiated by the Bank Negara
Malaysia (BNM) in the midst of financial crisis, the merger was not a market driven one
in its real sense. In particular, this study measures the impact of these merger
announcements on the appointed anchor bank, its target bank and combined bank. We
find that all CARt are statistically insignificant at any conventional level regardless of the
category during event window of 61-day and ll-day. We believe this is because these
mergers are arranged by BNM and are not market driven. There are shareholder gains
during the 11-day window for the combined bank category but the finding is not
statistically significant. However, they show slight positive returns but not substantial
during the 61-day window. We also find that the shorter periods ie. 11-day (-5,+5) would
give higher level of CARt than longer periods ie. 61-day (-30,+30) in both initial and
revised announcements. There are differences in CARt between the initial and revised
announcements even though both announcements are arranged by BNM and involved the same banks. We believe that the differences are mainly due to greater flexibility being
given to banks on merger during the revised announcement. There are also differences in
cumulative abnormal returns among the categories namely anchor bank, target bank and
combined bank during the 61-day window but for the event window 11-day, our finding
conclude that there is at least one category of CARt which is similar with the other
categories. For both event windows of 61-day and 11-day, CARt have a positive and
statistically significant relationship with the relative shareholders' funds of the anchor
bank (SHR) and New Anchor bank (NEW), and inverse relationship with the relative size
of anchor to target banks (ASSET). |
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