Topic: Effect of M&A activities on earnings management in Europe
Software: SPSS
Paper details:
File 1: Approved working plan
File 2: Thesis manual with universities requirements.
File 3: full dataset from companies in a merger or acquisition (targets & acquirers) extracted from FactSet.
File 4: Idea screening; every sample from file 3 needs to have a matched company NOT being in a M&A process, matched based on picking a ‘base’ year based on the transaction, the industry code and the size based on revenue/total assets.
I would expect a delivery every 7 days, for 1. Expand Methodology towards the working plan. 2. SPSS work and 3. Final paper.
There should be a regression made per country per Real Earnings Management model.
