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Cross-Border Acquisitions and Target Firms' Performance : Evidence from Japanese Firm-Level Data
Fukao, Kyoji - 2010
Using Japanese firm-level data for the period from 1994-2002, this paper examines whether a firm is chosen as an acquisition target based on its productivity level, profitability and other characteristics and whether the performance of Japanese firms that were acquired by foreign firms improves...
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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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Corporate Acquisitions, Diversification, and the Firm's Lifecycle
Arikan, Asli M. - 2011
Lifecycle theories of mergers and diversification predict that firms make acquisitions and diversify when their internal growth opportunities become exhausted. Free cash flow theories make similar predictions. In contrast to these theories, we find that the acquisition rate of firms (defined as...
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Hostility in Takeovers : in the Eyes of the Beholder?
Schwert, G. William - 2011
This paper examines whether hostile takeovers can be distinguished from friendly takeovers, empirically, based on accounting and stock performance data. Much has been made of this distinction in both the popular and the academic literature, where gains from hostile takeovers are typically...
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Winning by Losing : Evidence on the Long-Run Effects of Mergers
Malmendier, Ulrike - 2012
Do acquirors profit from acquisitions, or do CEOs overbid and destroy shareholder value? We propose a novel approach to measuring the long-run returns to mergers. In a new data set of close bidding contests we use losers' post-merger performance to construct the counterfactual performance of...
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Private Equity and Employment
Davis, Steven J. - 2014
Private equity critics claim that leveraged buyouts bring huge job losses. To investigate this claim, we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their 150,000 establishments before and after acquisition,...
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The Industry Life Cycle and Acquisitions and Investment : Does Firm Organization Matter?
Maksimovic, Vojislav - 2010
We examine the effect of financial dependence on acquisition and investment within existing industries by single-segment and conglomerate firms for industries undergoing different long run changes in industry conditions. Conglomerates and single-segment firms differ more in rates of...
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Do Buyouts (Still) Create Value?
Guo, Shourun - 2014
This paper examines whether, and how, leveraged buyouts from the most recent wave of public to private transactions created value. For a sample of 192 buyouts completed between 1990 and 2006, we show that these deals are somewhat more conservatively priced and lower levered than their...
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Cherries for Sale : Export Networks and the Incidence of Cross-Border M&A
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2012
evidence that both the established export networks and productivity losses among target firms promote takeover by foreign …
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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 …
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