Do Insiders Learn from Outsiders? Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions
研究发现并购公告的市场反应能预测交易是否完成，且公司似乎从市场反应中提取信息并影响后续决策，对研究市场效率与公司行为的学者有参考价值。
ABSTRACT I find that the market reaction to a merger and acquisition (M&A) announcement predicts whether the companies later consummate the deal. The relation cannot be explained by the market's anticipation of the closing decision or its perception of the deal quality at the announcement. Merging companies appear to extract information from the market reaction and later consider it in closing the deal. Furthermore, the relation varies with deal characteristics, suggesting that companies seem to have a higher incentive to learn from the market when canceling the announced deal is easier or when the market has more information that the companies do not know.