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Do Acquirers with More Uncertain Growth Prospects Gain Less from Acquisitions?

Moeller, Sara B. - 2004

Behavioral finance models imply that an increase in shares outstanding leads to a lower stock price for firms with greater diversity in opinion among investors. Information asymmetry models imply that share issues by firms with greater information asymmetries are accompanied by larger share...

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Information Aggregation, Investment, and Managerial Incentives

Albagli, Elias - 2011

We study the interplay of share prices and firm decisions when share prices aggregate and convey noisy information about fundamentals to investors and managers. First, we show that the informational feedback between the firm's share price and its investment decisions leads to a systematic...

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Target Revaluation after Failed Takeover Attempts – Cash Versus Stock

Malmendier, Ulrike - 2012

Cash- and stock-financed takeover bids induce strikingly different target revaluations. We exploit detailed data on … unsuccessful takeover bids between 1980 and 2008, and show that targets of cash offers are revalued on average by +15% after deal … longer horizons. We find no evidence that future takeover activities or operational changes explain these differences. While …

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Takeover Bids Below the Expected Value of Minority Shares

Bebchuk, Lucian A. - 2008

Focusing on takeover bids whose outcome can be predicted in advance with certainty, Grossman and Hart established the …

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Poison or Placebo? Evidence on the Deterrent and Wealth Effects of Modern Antitakeover Measures

Comment, Robert - 2008

poison pills and control share statutes are reliably associated with higher takeover premiums for selling shareholders, both … unconditionally and conditional on a successful takeover, and we provide updated event-study evidence for the three-quarters of all …

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Benefits of Control, Managerial Ownership, and the Stock Returns of Acquiring Firms

Hubbard, R. Glenn - 2008

This paper examines the effect of the benefits of corporate control to managers on the relationship between managerial ownership and the stock returns of acquiring firms in corporate control transactions. At low levels of managerial ownership, agency costs of equity (such as perquisite...

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Investor Sentiment and Corporate Finance : Micro and Macro

Lamont, Owen A. - 2006

We document that net equity issuance is considerably more sensitive to aggregate stock returns and Q's than to firm-level stock returns and Q's. Very similar patterns also emerge when we look at merger activity. In light of earlier work (Campbell 1991, Vuolteenaho 2002) which finds that...

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Wealth Destruction on a Massive Scale? A Study of Acquiring-Firm Returns in the Recent Merger Wave

Moeller, Sara B. - 2004

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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The Information Technology Revolution and the Stock Market : Evidence

Hobijn, Bart - 2014

Since 1968, the ratio of stock market capitalization to GDP has varied by a factor of 5. In 1972, the ratio stood at above unity, but by 1974, it had fallen to 0.45 where it stayed for the next decade. It then began a steady climb, and today it stands above 2. We argue that the IT revolution was...

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The Short of it : Investor Sentiment and Anomalies

Stambaugh, Robert F. - 2011

This study explores the role of investor sentiment in a broad set of anomalies in cross-sectional stock returns. We consider a setting where the presence of market-wide sentiment is combined with the argument that overpricing should be more prevalent than underpricing, due to short-sale...

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