The analysis of the offer premiums and of the means of payment should not be done separately. In the empirical literature these two variables are analyzed separately although they may have endogenous relation. Using a sample of European M&As over the 2000-2010 decade, we show that these two...

The subjective value given to time is a core concept of microeconomic choices. Using a sample of individuals questioned with regard to their time preference attitudes, we show that the subjective interest rate follows a negatively sloped term structure. It can be parameterized using two...

In this article we develop a parsimonious consumption-based model of the term structure of interest rates and test its implications for US monthly data from 1970:4 to 2013:1. Our main objective is to shed a new light on the term structure of subjective time preference rates. The empirical...

The discounted utility theory is one of the corner stone of financial theory; particularly in inter-temporal asset pricing and portfolio management. The questioning of this theory has opened a whole field of research in psychology, economics and management and has undergone several enhancements...

Share repurchases are transactions which are supposed to cause a market reaction through a signaling approach. However looking only at cumulated abnormal returns (CARs) is insufficient and the results are sometimes contradictory. We introduce the concept of informativeness to assess if...

Debt is not frequently analyzed in relation to the conflict between controlling and outside shareholders. At the same time, debt helps to manage the type II corporate agency conflicts because it is easier for controlling shareholders to modify the leverage ratio than to modify their share of...

Introduced in the European Union, the equal opportunity rule is seen as protecting investors in the event of a transfer of control. This rule is analyzed in a setting of information asymmetry and future private benefits between the new controlling shareholders and the outside investors. Both...

This paper looks at the combination of cash and share payment in takeovers, particularly in analyzing the condition of its optimal mix setting. This problem develops in a context of asymmetry of information for the buyer has lower information on the target firm than the sellers. But the bidder...

Debt is traditionally analyzed as disciplinary in the shareholders-manager conflict. It is less commonly analyzed in relation to controlling and outside shareholders. This paper shows that the joint problematics of ownership, private benefits and debt leverage are linked in a framework of...