# Professor Yakov Amihud addresses the decline of stock-for-stock deals in recent corporate mergers

1 Faculty News January 5, 2018 ![Global Finance logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_033477.jpg?itok=PxtFpGv3)>

Excerpt from [Global Finance](https://www.gfmag.com/magazine/january-2018/all-stock-deals-plummet-cheap-debt-environment) -- "[Yakov Amihud](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/yakov-amihud), Ira Rennert Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business, agrees: 'Cash offers were historically associated with better outcomes for bidders. One could suspect that a large component of stock in the offer, or all-stock offer, may reflect the bidder’s view that its stock is overvalued and its management thus uses it as currency to pay for the deal.'"

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