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Is There Information in Corporate Acquisition Plans?
Gokkaya, Sinan; Liu, Xi; Stulz, René M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
. Communication of acquisition plans does not increase takeover premiums but is less common in more competitive industries …
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Do Sell-Side Analysts Say "Buy" While Whispering "Sell"?
Hirshleifer, David; Shi, Yushui; Wu, Weili - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine how sell-side equity analysts strategically disclose information of differing quality to the public versus the buy-side mutual fund managers to whom they are connected. We consider cases in which analysts recommend that the public buys a stock, but some fund managers sell it. We...
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(Almost) 200 Years of News-Based Economic Sentiment
Binsbergen, Jules H. van; Bryzgalova, Svetlana; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Using text from 200 million pages of 13,000 US local newspapers and machine learning methods, we construct a 170-year-long measure of economic sentiment at the country and state levels, that expands existing measures in both the time series (by more than a century) and the cross-section. Our...
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Federalism and Takeover Law : The Race to Protect Managers from Takeovers
Bebchuk, Lucian Arye - 2000
state takeover law, we argue, is consistent with our theory. States have adopted antitakeover statutes that have little … competition cannot reconcile their views with the evolution of state takeover law---and should therefore reconsider their …
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Institutions, Restructuring, and Macroeconomic Performance
Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2000
A growing body of new research has emphasized the macroeconomic consequences of transactional impediments in factor markets, and their role in the recurrent restructuring requirements of modern economies. We first review the function institutional arrangements play in facilitating transactions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471041
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Blockholder Identity, Equity Ownership Structures, and Hostile Takeovers
Gorton, Gary - 1999
We determine firms' equity ownership structures and provide a theory of hostile takeovers by distinguishing the roles …-cost free' capital is scarce. We investigate the allocation of this scarce resource. A hostile takeover is the consequence of a … investors. Even though all firms are ex ante identical, some may rely on the takeover mechanism while others rely on permanent …
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Behavioral Corporate Finance
Malmendier, Ulrike - 2018
Behavioral Corporate Finance provides new and testable explanations for long-standing corporate-finance puzzles by applying insights from psychology to the behavior of investors, managers, and third parties (e. g., analysts or bankers). This chapter gives an overview of the three leading streams...
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Information and the Acquisition of Social Network Connections
Barsbai, Toman - 2020
How do information interventions affect individual efforts to expand social networks? We study a randomized controlled trial of a program providing information on settling in the U.S. for new immigrants from the Philippines. Improved information leads new immigrants to acquire fewer new social...
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Liquidity Mergers
Almeida, Heitor - 2011
We study the interplay between corporate liquidity and asset reallocation opportunities. Our model shows that financially distressed firms are acquired by liquid firms in their industries even when there are no operational synergies associated with the merger. We call these transactions...
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A Reference Point Theory of Mergers and Acquisitions
Baker, Malcolm - 2009
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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