Dr Ning Gao
University of Manchester
Faculty Member, Finance
United Kingdom
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My Publications
Socially Responsible Mergers Should Benefit Consumers
International Review of Financial Analysis
November 2021
Loan Price in Mergers and Acquisitions
Journal of Corporate Finance
April 2021
CEOs are judged on their companies' social (ESG) reputation.
Journal of Corporate Finance
April 2020
Research show cash-rich acquirers no longer make bad acquisitions as they did in the past.
Journal of Corporate Finance
June 2018
Does Hedge Fund Short-Termism Shape Up Merger Payment?
SSRN Electronic Journal
January 2018
What determines horizontal merger antitrust case selection?
Journal of Corporate Finance
October 2017
The motives of cash reserve and bidder cash reserve effects
International Review of Financial Analysis
January 2015
Industry Leaders, Limited Attention, and Spurious Cross-Industry Information Diffusion
Management Science
November 2013
What Are Friends for? CEO Networks, Pay and Corporate Governance
January 2012
Company cash reserve may have unwanted informational effects
Journal of Corporate Finance
September 2011
Transparency, Price Informativeness, and Stock Return Synchronicity: Theory and Evidence
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
August 2010