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Heterogeneous Frictional Costs Across Industries in Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2016
While there has been significant research to explore the determinants (and frictions) of foreign direct investment (FDI), past literature primarily focuses on country-wide FDI patterns with little examination of sectoral heterogeneity in FDI. Anecdotally, there is substantial sectoral...
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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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Globalization, Governance, and the Returns to Cross-Border Acquisitions
Ellis, Jesse A. - 2011
Using a sample of control cross-border acquisitions from 61 countries from 1990 to 2007, we find that acquirers from countries with better governance gain more from such acquisitions and their gains are higher when targets are from countries with worse governance. Other acquirer country...
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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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Corporate Liquidity, Acquisitions, and Macroeconomic Conditions
Erel, Isil - 2017
Firms hold liquid assets to enhance their ability to invest efficiently when external financing costs are high, especially during poor macroeconomic conditions. Using a sample of 47,378 acquisitions from 36 countries between 1997 and 2014, we study how the relation between firms' cash holdings...
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Venture Capital Investments and Merger and Acquisition Activity Around the World
Phillips, Gordon M. - 2017
world. We find evidence of a strong positive association between VC investments and lagged M&A activity, consistent with the … engage in more deals. We also explore the effects of country-level pro-takeover legislation passed internationally (positive … post-law changes in VC activity. VC activity intensifies after enactment of country-level takeover friendly legislation and …
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Extending Industry Specialization Through Cross-Border Acquisitions
Frésard, Laurent - 2016
We investigate the role of industry specialization in horizontal cross-border mergers and acquisitions. We find that acquirers from more specialized industries in a country are more likely to buy foreign targets in countries that are less specialized in these same industries. The role of...
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The Economic Effects of Private Equity Buyouts
Davis, Steven J. - 2019
We examine thousands of U.S. private equity (PE) buyouts from 1980 to 2013, a period that saw huge swings in credit market tightness and GDP growth. Our results show striking, systematic differences in the real-side effects of PE buyouts, depending on buyout type and external conditions....
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Borrow Cheap, Buy High? The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts
Axelson, Ulf - 2010
This paper provides an empirical analysis of the financial structure of large buyouts. We collect detailed information on the financing of 1157 worldwide private equity deals from 1980 to 2008. Buyout leverage is cross-sectionally unrelated to the leverage of matched public firms, and is largely...
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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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