Informed trading in peers of M&A firms: Evidence from M&A advisor banks

M&A advisor banks are privy to valuable and sensitive information through their service. I examine whether M&A advisor banks exploit such private information to trade in peers of M&A firms. I provide evidence that M&A advisor banks gain higher profits through their trading in peers o...

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主要作者: LI, Xuanbo
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語言:English
出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
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https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/etd_coll/article/1569/viewcontent/GPAC_AY2024_PhD_Xuanbo_Li.pdf
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總結:M&A advisor banks are privy to valuable and sensitive information through their service. I examine whether M&A advisor banks exploit such private information to trade in peers of M&A firms. I provide evidence that M&A advisor banks gain higher profits through their trading in peers of M&A firms, compared with non-advisor banks. Such informed trading is more intensive for M&A deals with larger impacts on peer firms (i.e., when the deal value is more significant for peer firms; when the M&A firms have larger market share in the industry; and when the stock price reactions of peer firms are stronger). Further analysis reveals that prior business relationships with peer firms enable M&A advisor banks to engage in such informed trading. In addition, M&A advisor banks’ performance pressure incentivizes them to utilize private M&A information for trading, while reputation concern deters such informed trading in peer firms.