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Corporate Acquisitions and Firm-Level Uncertainty : Domestic versus Cross-Border Deals
Bai, Ye - 2020
-level uncertainty is characterized by a pecking order: the announcement of a domestic takeover leads to a reduction in the uncertainty …
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Multiproduct Mergers and the Product Mix in Domestic and Foreign Markets
Chan, Jackie M.L; Irlacher, Michael; Koch, Michael - 2022
post-merger efficiency improvements to reveal a new margin of adjustment along the product dimension. We analyze horizontal … between differentiated varieties. After a merger, acquirers drop products from their consolidated domestic product portfolio … and reallocate assets towards core varieties. We further demonstrate that such merger-induced efficiency gains imply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013290783
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Missing Events in Event Studies : Identifying the Effects of Partially-Measured News Surprises
Gürkaynak, Refet S. - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908673
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Expectation Dispersion, Uncertainty, and the Reaction to News
Born, Benjamin; Dovern, Jonas; Enders, Zeno - 2021
Releases of key macroeconomic indicators are closely watched by financial markets. We investigate the role of expectation dispersion and economic uncertainty for the stock-market reaction to indicator releases. We find that the strength of the financial market response to news decreases with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251271
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J'Accuse! Antisemitism and Financial Markets in the Time of the Dreyfus Affair
Do, Quoc-Anh; Galbiati, Roberto; Marx, Benjamin; … - 2023
We study the stock market performance of firms with Jewish board members during the "Dreyfus Affair" in 19th century France. In a context of widespread latent antisemitism, initial accusations made against the Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus led to short-lived abnormal negative returns for...
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Distressed Acquisitions : Evidence from European Emerging Markets
Iwasaki, Ichiro; Kočenda, Evžen; Shida, Yoshisada - 2021
We analyze factors behind 23,213 distressed acquisitions in European emerging markets from 2007–2019. Besides the impact of financial ratios, legal form, ownership structure, firm size, and age, we emphasize the role of institutions and channels of their propagation. We show that the quality...
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The Effect of Mergers on Variety in Grocery Retailing
Argentesi, Elena; Cervone, Roberto; Duso, Tomaso; … - 2021
We study the effect of a merger between two Dutch supermarket chains to assess its effect on the depth as well as … composition of assortment. We adopt a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits local variation in the merger’s effects …, controlling for selection on observables through a matching procedure when defining our control group. We show that the merger led …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222202
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Mergers in the Digital Economy
Gautier, Axel - 2020
Over the period 2015-2017, the five giant technologically leading firms, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft (GAFAM) acquired 175 companies, from small start-ups to billion dollar deals. By investigating this intense M&A, this paper ambitions a better understanding of the Big Five's...
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Unlocking the value of cross-border mergers and acquisitions
Brakman, Steven; Garita, Gus; Garretsen, Harry; van … - 2008
Most FDI takes place between the developed countries, which suggests that the market-seeking motive is important for understanding FDI. However, given the stylized fact that trade barriers (e.g. transportation costs and financial barriers) have declined over the past 20 years, models that aim to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275800
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Monetary Policy Surprises and Exchange Rate Behavior
Gürkaynak, Refet S. - 2020
Central banks unexpectedly tightening policy rates often observe the exchange value of their currency depreciate, rather than appreciate as predicted by standard models. We document this for Fed and ECB policy days using eventstudies and ask whether an information effect, where the public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822502