Considering the 2007–2009 ? nancial situation, one cannot help but wonder how the crisis affected the wealth associated with merger and acquisition (M&A) announcements. This article examines the impact of such announcements on the stock returns (performance) of public companies during ? nancial and non-? nancial crisis periods. Speci? cally, the article seeks to compare the effects these announcements have on the stock returns of bidder ? rms during a crisis period and a non-crisis period. The ? nancial crisis period considered announcements made between October 2007 and February 2009, while that of the non? nancial crisis was between January 1999 and October 2007. Data were collected from Reuters Business Database, Bloomberg Database, Thomson Datastream and other webbased sources. With the use of event study methodology, the study reveals that there are no signi? cant modi? cations in the stock return of a bidder ? rm’s shares, either during or before a global economic crisis

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Keywords

Economic crisis, non-economic crisis, M&As, event study, stock returns