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Private equity owned firms have more leverage, more intense compensation contracts, and higher productivity than comparable firms. We develop a theory of buyouts in oligopolistic markets that explains these facts. Private equity firms are more aggressive in inducing restructuring compared to...
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inflate investment costs and acquisition prices. We generate novel testable predictions for the interaction of patent law …
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interaction model of MNE cross-border acquisition and greenfield entry into an oligopolistic market. We provide an event study … increase when an acquisition is announced if and only if the domestic assets are not too strategically important. If there is … risk associated with cross-border M&As, we show that such risks reduce the likelihood and the acquisition price of cross …
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Within the policy debate, there is a fear that large incumbent firms buy small firms' inventions to ensure that they are not used in the market. We show that such "acquisitions for sleep" can occur if and only if the quality of a process invention is small; otherwise, the entry profit will be...
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the threat of a PE acquisition can trigger incumbent mergers in an otherwise mergerstable industry. This can help …
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