This paper estimates the effects of several American law firms' international networks of offices on the total value of …

-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 …

hostile bidders to win a vote of shareholder support -- boards should not have veto power over takeover bids. The paper …

change: internally precipitated management turnover, hostile takeover, and friendly takeover. We find that firms experiencing … is also weaker evidence that hostile takeover targets underperform their industry peers. We interpret this evidence as … relative to industry, but that an external challenge in the form of a hostile takeover is often required when the whole …

evidence that both the established export networks and productivity losses among target firms promote takeover by foreign …