One Study That Reviewed 40 Empirical Merger and Acquisition Studies

question 81

True/False

One study that reviewed 40 empirical merger and acquisition studies in the finance literature concluded that acquisitions, on average, increased the market value of bidding firms by about 25 percent and left the market value of the target firms unchanged.

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