Business Review Volume 9 Issue 2 July-December 2014 Article 3 7-1-2014 Wealth effect of mergers & acquisitions in emerging market: A case of Pakistan’s banking sector Sana Tauseef Institute of Business Administration Karachi, Pakistan Mohammad Nishat Institute of Business Administration Karachi, Pakistan Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.iba.edu.pk/businessreview Part of the Business Analytics Commons, Business and Corporate Communications Commons, Corporate Finance Commons, and the Finance and Financial Management Commons This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. iRepository Citation Tauseef, S., & Nishat, M. (2014). Wealth effect of mergers & acquisitions in emerging market: A case of Pakistan’s banking sector. Business Review, 9(2), 24-39. Retrieved from https://ir.iba.edu.pk/ businessreview/vol9/iss2/3 This article is brought to you by iRepository for open access under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. https://ir.iba.edu.pk/businessreview/vol9/iss2/3 Business Review – Volume 9 Number 2 July – December 2014 ARTICLE WEALTH EFFECT OF MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS IN EMERGING MARKET: A CASE OF PAKISTAN’S BANKING SECTOR Sana Tauseef, Institute of Business Administration Karachi, Pakistan Mohammad Nishat, Institute of Business Administration Karachi, Pakistan Abstract This study investigates the short-term market response associated with the announcement of seven merger and acquisition deals in the banking sector of Pakistan during the period 2003 to 2008 using the event study methodology. The results indicate statistically significant investor reactions around the merger announcements. For individual target and bidder banks, the cumulative abnormal returns (CARs) range from significant positive to significant negative.