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Aggregate insider trading and stock market volatility in the UK

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Kyriacou, Kyriacos; … - 2023

This paper examines the relationship between aggregate insider trading (AIT) and stock market volatility using monthly data on insider transactions by UK executives in public limited companies for the period January 2002 - December 2020. More specifically, a Vector Autoregression (VAR) model is...

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An empirical analysis of legal insider trading in the Netherlands

Degryse, Hans; Jong, Frank de; Lefebvre, Jérémie - 2009

In this paper, we employ a registry of legal insider trading for Dutch listed firms to investigate the information content of trades by corporate insiders. Using a standard event-study methodology, we examine short-term stock price behavior around trades. We find that purchases are followed by...

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Shocks to firm organization : the case of foreign acquisitions

Koch, Michael; Macedoni, Luca; Odintsova, Angelina - 2024

This paper studies how foreign acquisitions affect firms’ internal labor organization, particularly occupational switching. This focus is inspired by new stylized facts we document using linked employer-employee data from Denmark: while the total number of occupations and hierarchical layers...

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Innovation and startup acquisition

Bourreau, Marc; Gautier, Axel - 2024

In this paper, we consider two platforms that compete for the development of a new product to integrate into their ecosystems. The new product can be developed either inhouse by the platforms or by an independent startup active only in the technology market. The presence of the startup affects...

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Effects of territorial and worldwide corporation tax systems on outbound M&As

Feld, Lars P.; Ruf, Martin; Scheuering, Uwe; Schreiber, … - 2013

Repatriation taxes reduce the competitiveness of multinational firms from tax credit countries when bidding for targets in low tax countries. This comparative disadvantage with respect to bidders from exemption countries violates ownership neutrality, which results in production inefficiencies...

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Buying to sell : private equity buyouts and industrial restructuring

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Tåg, Joacim - 2013

We show how temporary ownership by private equity firms affects industry structure, competition and welfare. Temporary ownership leads to strong investment incentives because equilibrium resale prices are determined by buyers incentives to block rivals from obtaining assets. These incentives...

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CEO preferences and acquisitions

Jenter, Dirk; Lewellen, Katharina - 2011

of takeover bids. Mergers frequently force target CEOs to retire early, and CEOs' private merger costs are the forgone … costs, we find strong evidence that target CEO preferences affect merger patterns. The likelihood of receiving a takeover … in takeover activity appears discretely at the age-65 threshold, with no gradual increase as CEOs approach retirement age …

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Driven by the discount factor : impact of mergers on market performance in the semiconductor industry

Harris, Jeremiah; Siebert, Ralph - 2015

This study investigates the impact of firm-specific discount factors on merger formation and market performance. We estimate firm-specific discount factors for 228 publicly traded and privately held firms operating in the semiconductor market and apply a heterogeneous treatment effects model...

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Foreign ownership and skillbiased technological change

Koch, Michael; Smolka, Marcel - 2018

We conduct an empirical investigation into the effects of foreign ownership on worker skills using firm-level data from Spain. To control for endogeneity bias due to selection into foreign ownership, we combine a difference-in-differences approach with a propensity score weighting estimator. Our...

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Chinese acquisitions abroad : are they different?

Fuest, Clemens; Hugger, Felix; Sultan, Samina; Xing, Jing - 2019

In recent years Chinese acquisitions abroad have increased significantly. This paper uses a large dataset on cross-border M&A deals to investigate whether Chinese foreign acquisitions differ from acquisitions coming from other countries. We find that Chinese acquirers buy targets with lower...

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