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When a takeover is announced, the sum of the stock-market values of the firms involved often falls, and the value of … necessarily. We set up a model in which the equilibrium number of takeovers is constrained efficient. Yet, upon news of a takeover …
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Focusing on takeover bids whose outcome can be predicted in advance with certainty, Grossman and Hart established the …
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are robust to a range of approaches to address the endogeneity of firms' merger decisions …
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The use of judgmental anchors or reference points in valuing corporations affects several basic aspects of merger and … acquisition activity including offer prices, deal success, market reaction, and merger waves. Offer prices are biased towards the …, bidder shareholders react increasingly negatively as the offer price is pulled upward toward that price. Merger waves occur …
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Acquiring-firm shareholders lost 12 cents at the announcement of acquisitions for every dollar spent on acquisitions for a total loss of $240 billion from 1998 through 2001, whereas they lost $7 billion in all of the 1980s, or 1.6 cents per dollar spent. Though the announcement losses to...
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Brand and generic drug manufacturers frequently settle patent litigation on terms that include a payment to the generic manufacturer along with a specified date at which the generic would enter the market. The Federal Trade Commission contends that these agreements extend the brand's market...
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Macroeconomic news announcements are elaborate and multi-dimensional. We consider a framework in which jumps in asset prices around macroeconomic news and monetary policy announcements reflect both the response to observed surprises in headline numbers and latent factors, reflecting other...
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merge and post-merger value creation and synergies? We compile comprehensive information on U.S. bank acquisitions from 1986 …
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