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A Reference Point Theory of Mergers and Acquisitions
Baker, Malcolm P. - 2010
The use of judgmental anchors or reference points in valuing corporations affects several basic aspects of merger and acquisition activity including offer prices, deal success, market reaction, and merger waves. Offer prices are biased towards the 52-week high, a highly salient but largely...
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Cash-Out or Flame-Out! Opportunity Cost and Entrepreneurial Strategy : Theory, and Evidence from the Information Security Industry
Arora, Ashish; Nandkumar, Anand - 2021
We analyze how entrepreneurial opportunity cost conditions performance. We depart from the literature on entrepreneurship which identifies survival with performance. Instead, many entrepreneurs aim for a cash-out (IPO or acquisition), especially in innovation based industries. Striving for a...
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Foreign Entry into U.S. Manufacturing by Takeovers and the Creation of New Firms
Lipsey, Robert E.; Feliciano, Zadia - 2021
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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Foreign Ownership and Firm Performance : Emerging-Market Acquisitions in the United States
Chari, Anusha; Chen, Wenjie; Dominguez, Kathryn M.E - 2021
This paper examines the recent upsurge in foreign acquisitions of U.S. firms, specifically focusing on acquisitions made by firms located in emerging markets. Neoclassical theory predicts that, on net, capital should flow from countries that are capital-abundant to countries that are...
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Indivisibilities in Distribution
Holmes, Thomas J. - 2018
This paper develops and estimates a model of indivisibilities in shipping and economies of scale in consolidation. It uses highly detailed data on imports for which it is possible to observe the contents of individual containers. In the model, a firm is able to adapt to indivisibility...
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The Intensive Margin in Trade
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2018
The Melitz model highlights the importance of the extensive margin (the number of firms exporting) for trade flows. Using the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) featuring firm-level exports from 50 countries, we find that around 50% of variation in exports is along the extensive...
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Distribution Capital and the Short- and Long-Run Import Demand Elasticity
Crucini, Mario J. - 2013
The elasticity of substitution between home and foreign goods is one of the most important parameters in international economics. The international macro literature, which is primarily concerned with short-run business cycle fluctuations, assigns a low value to this parameter. The international...
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Workplace Knowledge Flows
Sandvik, Jason; Saouma, Richard E.; Seegert, Nathan; … - 2022
What prevents the spread of information among coworkers, and which management practices facilitate workplace knowledge flows? We conducted a field experiment in a sales company, addressing these questions with three active treatments. (1) Encouraging workers to talk about their sales techniques...
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Alternative Mechanisms for Corporate Control
Morck, Randall - 2013
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 …
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Mergers as Reallocation
Jovanovic, Boyan - 2012
We argue that takeovers have played a major role in speeding up the diffusion of new technology. The role that they play is similar to that of entry and exit of firms. We focus on and compare two periods: 1890-1930 during which electricity and the internal combustion engine spread through the...
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