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The Value of the Revolving Door: Political Appointees and the Stock Market

Luechinger, Simon; Moser, Christoph - CESifo - 2012

We analyze stock market reactions to announcements of political appointments from the private sector and corporate appointments of former government officials. Using unique data on corporate affiliations and announcements of all Senate-confirmed U.S. Defense Department appointees of six...

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Horizontal Merger under Strategic Tax Policy

Liu, Chih-Chen; Mukherjee, Arijit; Wang, Leonard F.S. - CESifo - 2014

We show that the presence of a strategic tax policy increases the incentive for a horizontal merger compared to the … a horizontal merger that has been ignored in the existing literature. In contrast to the usual belief, we also show that … a horizontal merger may benefit the consumers and the society. …

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Profitable Horizontal Mergers without Cost Advantages: The Role of Internal Organization, Information, and Market Structure

Huck, Steffen; Konrad, Kai A.; Müller, Wieland - CESifo - 2001

Merged firms are typically rather complex organizations. Accordingly, merger has a more profound effect on the …

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Merger in Contests

Huck, Steffen; Konrad, Kai A.; Müller, Wieland - CESifo - 2000

Competition in some markets is a contest. This paper studies the merger incentives in such markets. Merger can be … profitable. The profitability depends on the post-merger contest st ructure, the discriminatory power of the contest and on the …

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Silent Interests and All-Pay Auctions

Konrad, Kai A. - CESifo - 2005

If firms compete in all-pay auctions with complete information, silent shareholdings introduce asymmetric externalities into the all-pay auction framework. If the strongest firm owns a large share in the second strongest firm, this may make the strongest firm abstain from bidding. As a...

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Ownership Concentration and Share Valuation: Evidence from Germany

Edwards, Jeremy; Weichenrieder, Alfons - CESifo - 1999

Concentrated ownership of large listed companies is widespread throughout the world, and Germany is typical in this respect. This paper proposes a method of distinguishing empirically between the beneficial and harmful effects of ownership concentration, and applies it to German data. The...

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Debt Financing and Sharp Currency Depreciations: Wholly vs. Partially Owned Multinational Affiliates

Hebous, Shafik; Weichenrieder, Alfons - CESifo - 2009

This paper provides empirical evidence on two potential costs of shared ownership of German affiliates abroad. First, in periods of currency crises, wholly-owned affiliates, in contrast to partially-owned affiliates, seem to circumvent financial constraints by accessing capital from their parent...

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The Scope of Auctions in the Presence of Downstream Interactions and Information Externalities

Koska, Onur A.; Onur, Ilke; Stähler, Frank - CESifo - 2015

We scrutinize the scope of auctions in the presence of downstream interactions and information externalities by using the topical example of a firm acquisition. We show that no mechanism exists that allows an investor to acquire a low-cost firm under incomplete information: a separating auction...

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Source versus Residence Based Taxation with International Mergers and Acquisitions

Becker, Johannes; Fuest, Clemens - CESifo - 2009

This paper analyses tax competition and tax coordination in a model where capital flows occur in the form of mergers and acquisitions, rather than greenfield investment. In this framework, we show that differences in residence based taxes do not necessarily distort international ownership...

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Tax Competition – Greenfield Investment versus Mergers and Acquisitions

Becker, Johannes; Fuest, Clemens - CESifo - 2008

In this paper, we analyze tax competition in a model where investor firms have the choice between two types of investment, greenfield investment and mergers and acquisitions. We show that the coexistence of these two types of investment intensifies tax competition in comparison to the case where...

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