Dr. Soranakom's paper has been accepted for MFA 2010

The paper entitled "Dividend Policy and the Method of Payment in Mergers and Acquisitions" by Dr. Jin Q. Jeon, Western Oregon University, USA, Prof. Dr. James A. Ligon, University of Alabama USA, and Dr. Charn Soranakom, Mahidol University,  has been accepted for presentation in 2010 Midwest Finance Association annual meeting in Las Vegas, USA on February 24-27, 2010.

This paper seeks to explain the choice of payment method in mergers and acquisitions using the dividend clientele hypothesis.  The empirical data support the relevance of such hypothesis for the method of payment in mergers and acquisitions. It was also found that in stock-based deals a difference in dividend policies is negatively correlated with target  announcement returns.

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