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Fire-Sale FDI or Business as Usual?
Alquist, Ron - 2018
Using a new data set, we examine the characteristics and dynamics of cross-border mergers and acquisitions during emerging-market financial crises, that is, so-called "fire-sale FDI". Our findings shed fresh light on whether the transactions undertaken during crisis periods differ in fundamental...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226196
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Swedish Firms Acquired by Foreigners : A Comparison of Before and after Takeover
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2004
relatively low in value added per employee at the time of takeover and before, a characteristic we take to indicate relatively …-term recoveries after takeover from the misfortunes of the takeover year and a return to higher growth rates of employment and output … year or two after takeover but seem to have increased their profitability or efficiency relative to their industries. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012786214
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Globalization and Innovation in Emerging Markets
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2014
Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging markets to innovate and improve their competitive position. Using data on firms in 27 emerging market economies, we estimate the effects of foreign competition, vertical linkages with foreign firms, and international...
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Acquiring Control in Emerging Markets : Evidence from the Stock Market
Chari, Anusha; Ouimet, Paige; Tesar, Linda L. - 2021
When firms from developed markets acquire firms in emerging markets, market-capitalization-weighted monthly joint returns show a statistically significant increase of 1.8%. Panel data estimations suggest that the value gains from cross-border M&A transactions stem from the transfer of majority...
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The Price Effects of a Large Merger of Manufacturers : A Case Study of Maytag-Whirlpool
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2011
appliance markets most affected by the merger to markets where concentration changed much less or not at all. We estimate price …
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R&D and the Incentives from Merger and Acquisition Activity
Phillips, Gordon M. - 2014
industry merger and acquisition activity. All of these effects are stronger for smaller firms than for larger firms …
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Evidence of Regulatory Arbitrage in Cross-Border Mergers of Banks in the EU
Carbo-Valverde, Santiago - 2010
banks in individual EU countries help to explain the nature of cross-border merger activity. If they wish to protect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150440
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World Markets for Mergers and Acquisitions
Erel, Isil - 2009
Despite the fact that one-third of worldwide mergers involve firms from different countries, the vast majority of the academic literature on mergers studies domestic mergers. What little has been written about cross-border mergers has focused on public firms, usually from the United States. Yet,...
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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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