Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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958456 | Journal of Empirical Finance | 2009 | 14 Pages |
Abstract
This paper examines shifts in the market betas and the conditional volatility of stock prices of takeover targets. Using daily stock prices of five European and American targets, we find that adequately specified Markov-switching GARCH models are capable of detecting statistically significant regime-switches in all takeover deal-types (in cash bids, pure share-exchange bids, mixed bids). In particular, conditional volatility regime-switches are found to be most clear-cut for cash bids. Our econometric findings have implications for a broad range of financial applications such as the valuation of target stock options.
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Authors
Sergey Gelman, Bernd Wilfling,