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Venture Capital Investments and Merger and Acquisition Activity Around the World

Phillips, Gordon M. - 2017

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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Anti-Corruption Reforms and Shareholder Valuations : Event Study Evidence from China

Lin, Chen - 2016

Consistent with reduced expected corruption adding value overall, Chinese shares rise sharply on the December 4th 2012 launch of major anti-corruption reforms, which started by curtailing extravagant spending by or for Party cadres. SOEs gain broadly, consistent with the reform cutting their top...

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The Impact of the Philadelphia Beverage Tax on Prices and Product Availability

Cawley, John - 2018

In recent years, numerous cities in the U.S. have enacted taxes on beverages to promote health and raise revenue. This paper examines the impact of Philadelphia's beverage tax, enacted in 2017, on the prices and availability of taxed beverages and untaxed beverages that may be substitutes for...

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Product and Labor Market Regulations, Production Prices, Wages and Productivity

Cette, Gilbert - 2014

through their various impacts on changes in production prices and wages. In a first stage, the estimation of a regression …

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The Price Effects of Cross-Market Hospital Mergers

Dafny, Leemore - 2016

belonging to both merging parties, as well as (one or more) \common insurers" with which price and network status is negotiated …) experience price increases of 7-10 percent relative to control hospitals, while hospitals gaining system members out …-of-state exhibit no statistically significant changes in price. The former group are likelier to share common customers and insurers …

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How Do Top Acquirers Compare in Technology Mergers? New Evidence from an S&P Taxonomy

Jin, Ginger Zhe; Leccese, Mario; Wagman, Liad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Some argue that large platforms, such as Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft (or GAFAM), are unusual in their number, pace and concentration of technology mergers, with the potential to harm market competition. Using a unique taxonomy developed by S&P Global Market...

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Evidence for the Effects of Mergers on Market Power and Efficiency

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2016

Study of the impact of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on productivity and market power has been complicated by the difficulty of separating these two effects. We use newly-developed techniques to separately estimate productivity and markups across a wide range of industries using detailed...

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Can Online Learning Bend the Higher Education Cost Curve?

Deming, David J.; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2015

We examine whether online learning technologies have led to lower prices in higher education. Using data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, we show that online education is concentrated in large for-profit chains and less-selective public institutions. Colleges with a...

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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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The Vote is Cast : The Effect of Corporate Governance on Shareholder Value

Cuñat, Vicente - 2010

This paper estimates the effect of corporate governance provisions on shareholder value and long-term outcomes in S&P1500 firms. We apply a regression discontinuity design to shareholder votes on governance proposals in annual meetings. A close-call vote around the majority threshold is akin to...

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