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Product Market Synergies and Competition in Mergers and Acquisitions : A Text-Based Analysis
Hoberg, Gerard - 2008
We examine how product differentiation influences mergers and acquisitions and the ability of firms to exploit product market synergies. Using novel text-based analysis of firm 10K product descriptions, we find three key results. (1) Firms are more likely to enter restructuring transactions when...
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How Merger Synergies Can Harm Consumers : A Defense of the Efficiencies Offense
Wollmann, Thomas G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper uses an aggregative games framework to predict consumer welfare when market structure is endogenously determined. Our main results characterize mergers whose synergies reduce consumer welfare by inducing rivals to exit. The conditions under which such mergers arise are broad,...
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Both Sides of Corporate Diversification : The Value Impacts of Geographic and Industrial Diversification
Bodnar, Gordon M. - 1997
This paper examines the effect of geographic and industrial diversification on firm value for a sample of over 20,000 firm-year observations of U.S. corporations from 1987-1993. Our" multivariate tests indicate the average value of a firm with international operations is 2.2% higher than...
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Do Buyouts (Still) Create Value?
Guo, Shourun - 2008
This paper examines whether, and how, leveraged buyouts from the most recent wave of public to private transactions created value. For a sample of 192 buyouts completed between 1990 and 2006, we show that these deals are somewhat more conservatively priced and lower levered than their...
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Financial vs. Strategic Buyers
Martos-Vila, Marc - 2013
This paper introduces the impact of debt misvaluation on merger and acquisition activity. Debt misvaluation helps explain the shifting dominance of financial acquirers (private equity firms) relative to strategic acquirers (operating companies). The effects of overvalued debt might seem limited...
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Buyout Activity : The Impact of Aggregate Discount Rates
Haddad, Valentin - 2016
Buyout booms form in response to declines in the aggregate risk premium. We document that the equity risk premium is the primary determinant of buyout activity rather than credit-specific conditions. We articulate a simple explanation for this phenomenon: a low risk premium increases the present...
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Synergizing Ventures
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2019
Venture capital (VC) and growth are examined both empirically and theoretically. Empirically, VC-backed startups have higher early growth rates and initial patent quality than non-VC-backed ones. VC-backing increases a startup's likelihood of reaching the right tails of the firm size and...
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Busy Directors : Strategic Interaction and Monitoring Synergies
Ljungqvist, Alexander - 2017
We derive conditions for when having a "busy" director on the board is harmful to shareholders and when it is beneficial. Our model allows directors to condition their monitoring choices on their co-directors' choices and to experience positive or negative monitoring synergies across firms....
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Contracting With Synergies
Edmans, Alex - 2011
reduces a colleague's marginal cost of effort, and synergy to be the sum of the (unidimensional) influence parameters across a … depends only on total synergy and not individual influence parameters. An increase in synergy raises total effort and total … synergistic agents. An increase in the synergy between two agents can lead to the third agent being excluded from the team, even …
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Syndicated Lending, Competition and Relative Performance Evaluation
Schneider, Thomas Ian; Strahan, Philip E.; Yang, Jun - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Relative performance evaluation (RPE) intensifies competitive pressure by tying executive compensation to the profits of rivals. We show that these contracts make loan syndication harder by reducing banks' willingness to participate in loans underwritten by banks named in their RPE contracts....
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