In recent years, an increasing number of Chinese firms have been engaged in acquisitions
both inside and outside of China. Nevertheless, our understanding of Chinese merger and …

The paper reviews the literature on internal and external corporate governance mechanisms
in China. Chinese regulatory bodies have made considerable efforts to improve the …

Although numerous studies analyze mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in and out of
developed economies (DE), a much smaller number of studies focus on M&As in and out of …

This study examines the relationship between economic policy uncertainty and mergers and
acquisitions (M&As) in China. Using all listed Chinese companies on the Shanghai and …

Using a panel of Chinese listed firms over the period 1998–2015, we examine the extent to
which liquidity impacts firms' acquisition decisions, method of payment choice, and …

This paper examines the role of state ownership in mergers and acquisitions by analysing
the short‐and long‐term performance of Chinese state‐owned enterprise (SOE) acquirers …

To examine the impact of acquisition announcements on the stock market returns of rivals of
the acquiring firms, we propose a growth probability hypothesis: when an acquisition is …

This paper explores the relationship between mergers and acquisitions and firm
performance by running a partial least squares regression with the data of listed Chinese …

We examine 136 M&A deals from 1997 to 2007 initiated by Chinese companies listed on the
Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges, where the acquirer gains complete control of the …

We show that greater board network centrality is associated with lower acquirer stock returns
in the Chinese capital market. This negative effect is mainly due to inside directors' networks …