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Using U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis data for individual foreign acquisitions and new establishments in the U.S from 1988 to 1998, and aggregate data for 1980 to 1998, we find that acquisitions and establishments of new firms tend to occur in periods of high U.S. growth and take place mainly...
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made by firms located in emerging markets. Neoclassical theory predicts that, on net, capital should flow from countries …
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We study the interplay between corporate liquidity and asset reallocation opportunities. Our model shows that financially distressed firms are acquired by liquid firms in their industries even when there are no operational synergies associated with the merger. We call these transactions...
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paper, we use states' passage of anti-takeover legislation as a source of such independent variation. Passed in the 1980's …
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This paper studies the effect of stock liquidity on blockholders' choice of governance mechanisms. We focus on hedge funds as they are unconstrained by legal restrictions and business ties, and thus have all governance channels at their disposal. Since the threat of governance, not just actual...
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-controlling investors. This, in turn, increases the acquirer's capacity to raise outside funds to finance the takeover. Absent effective … effective competition, the increased outside funding capacity makes it less likely that the takeover outcome is determined by … to create value. Accordingly, stronger legal investor protection can improve the efficiency of the takeover outcome …
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network as valuable to serve independently, increasing the surplus generated by a foreign acquisition. From the theory we … evidence that both the established export networks and productivity losses among target firms promote takeover by foreign …
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Banks are in the business of taking calculated risks. Expanding the geographic footprint of an organization's profit-making activities changes the geographic pattern of its exposure to loss in ways that are hard for regulators and supervisors to observe. This paper tests and confirms the...
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This paper investigates the relation between a firm's location and its corporate finance decisions. We develop a simple model where being located within an industry cluster increases opportunities to make acquisitions, and to facilitate those acquisitions, firms within clusters maintain more...
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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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