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to incentivize entrenched managers to focus on shareholders' best interests. A fast-learning acquirer bids frequently and …
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This paper presents new empirical evidence suggesting that the market evaluates acquisition announcements in the context of the firm's investment policy. When a firm with superior prior internal investment purchases another, market participants often learn from the acquisition, that internal...
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I examine whether market learning and M&A activity affect the association between shareholder rights and acquisition performance. Using a sample of acquisitions completed in the period of 1990-2006, I find that the negative association between governance indices and bidder returns disappears in...
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We directly study the information gathering process around a merger announcement by using the IP addresses accessing Form 8-K filings for merger agreements. This allows us to measure who pays attention to the announcement, how attention varies across mergers, and if this attention is related to...
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Die Entwicklung neuer Ansätze zur Förderung lebenslangen Lernens stellt eine der zentralen Herausforderungen an die empirische Erziehungswissenschaft dar. Es besteht ein Bedarf an Methoden, die sowohl individuelles als auch Gruppenlernen unterstützen, die der wachsenden Internationalisierung...
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When there is uncertainty about a CEO's quality, news about the firm causes rational investors to update their expectation of the firm's profitability for two reasons: Updates occur because of the direct effect of the news, and also because the news can cause an updated assessment of the CEO's...
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The level of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) pay responds asymmetrically to good and bad news about the CEO's ability. The average CEO captures approximately half of the surpluses from good news, implying CEOs and shareholders have roughly equal bargaining power. In contrast, the average CEO bears...
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rational managers engage in misreporting, in spite of the costly consequences. We present a simple extension to the Fischer and … in the reputation costs observed after a restatement, such that managers only reduce future bias if the observed cost of … based on more restatements. Our results indicate that rational managers use the insights from prior restatements to improve …
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The purpose of this paper is twofold. 1) We propose for the first time in the literature a theory (managerial learning … hypothesis) that may explain why managers engage in corporate social responsibility (CSR). 2) We use an intuitive empirical … methodology (Edmans et al. 2017) to test the relevance/irrelevance of our new theory. The idea behind our main contribution is …
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