The Chocolate Ice Cream Company and the Vanilla Ice Cream Company have agreed to merge and form
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The weather conditions in each town are independent of those in the other.
Furthermore, each company has an outstanding debt claim of $425,000. Assume that no premiums are paid in the merger.
a. What are the possible values of the combined company?
b. What are the possible values of end-of-period debt values and stock values after the merger?
c. Show that the bondholders are better off and the stockholders are worse off in the combined firm than they would have been if the firms had remained separate.
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Corporate Finance
ISBN: 978-0077861759
10th edition
Authors: Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, Jeffrey Jaffe
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