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title: Generalizing Event Studies: Dollar Tree-Family Dollar Acquisition
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4551774/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4551774
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4551774
featured: 2023-08-30
citations: unknown
topic: Corporate Finance
---


# Generalizing Event Studies: Dollar Tree-Family Dollar Acquisition

Dollar Tree-Family Dollar Acquisition: The paper suggests a new empirical approach using a synthetic control method and machine learning to compare outcomes in mergers and acquisitions research.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4551774
- Identifier: SSRN 4551774
- Released: 2021-06-07
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 14 (2023-08-30): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2023-08-30/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Corporate Finance

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