Empirical Evidence Suggests That Earnings Outcomes from Mergers Exhibit

question 55

Multiple Choice

Empirical evidence suggests that earnings outcomes from mergers exhibit:

• A)a symmetric distribution.
• B)a positively skewed distribution.
• C)a negatively skewed distribution.
• D)a leptokurtic distribution.
• E)no fixed pattern of distribution.

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