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Merger Arbitrage Risk Model
Jan 1, 2010
A traditional VaR approach is not suitable to assess the risk that merger arbitrage funds carry in their portfolios. We propose a simple two-state or three-state model that captures the risk characteristics of the deals in which merger arbitrage funds invest. This model has been tested on a set of mergers and acquisitions between large US public companies in 2005.
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