International Journal of Managerial Finance: Volume 8 Issue 2

Ownership structure, earnings management and acquiring firm post‐merger market performance : Evidence from Canada

Claude Francoeur, Walid Ben Amar, Philémon Rakoto

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the link between ownership structure, earnings management (EM) preceding mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and the acquiring firm's…

Trading costs around M&A announcements

Liuqing Mai

The purpose of this paper is to examine trading costs of both acquiring firms and target firms differentiated by method of payment, mode of acquisition, and deal attitude around…

Baltic States and the Euro: a spectral analysis of the 2007 financial crisis

David Gray

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the banking crisis in the USA and Western Europe that began in August 2007 precipitated a change in the relationship between the…

Working capital management and firms’ performance in emerging markets: the case of Jordan

Bana Abuzayed

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of working capital management on firms’ performance for a sample of firms listed on a small emerging market, namely Amman Stock…