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Business Groups, Bank Control and Large Shareholders: An Analysis of German Takeovers

Boehmer, Ekkehart - 1999

I analyse the effect of ownership structure and bank control on performance. I employ a unique data set of 715 German takeovers to test whether group structure, large shareholders, and bank control affect their value to shareholders. First, I find that takeovers increase bidder value, but...

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Warum Abwehrmaßnahmen gegen Übernahmen in Spanien?

Alemany, Margalida; Crespi-Cladera, Rafel - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 2, pp. 214-224

The adoption of takeover protections, from the empirical side, has been focused to find supporting evidence to the … decisions for additional takeover defenses are taken. Alternatively, external control gives more negotiation power, allowing for … higher takeover prices, which is expected to increase shareholders' wealth. These two hypotheses have been widely tested in …

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Disentangling the link between stock and accounting performance in acquisitions

Betzer, André; Goergen, Marc - 2011

While empirical studies that use event-study methodology find on average that the gains from mergers and acquisitions are positive, those focusing on accounting figures tend to find a significant drop in performance. We argue that each of the four possible combinations between positive or...

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The value relevance of top executive departures: evidence from the Netherlands

Cools, Kees; van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2007

On theoretical grounds, monitoring of top executives by the (supervisory) board is expected to be value relevant. The empirical evidence is ambiguous and we analyze three non-competing explanations for this ambiguity: (i) The positive effect on firm value of board monitoring is hidden in stock...

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Are IPOs of Different VCs Different?

Tykvová, Tereza; Walz, Uwe - 2004

This paper sets out to analyze the influence of different types of venture capitalists on the performance of their portfolio firms around and after IPO. We investigate the hypothesis that different governance structures, objectives, and track records of different types of VCs have a significant...

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Are IPOs of different VCs different?

Tykvová, Tereza; Walz, Uwe - 2004

This paper aims to analyze the impact of different types of venture capitalists on the performance of their portfolio firms around and after the IPO. We thereby investigate the hypothesis that different governance structures, objectives and track record of different types of VCs have a...

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The value relevance of forced top management departures: Dutch evidence

Cools, Kees; van Praag, Mirjam - 2003

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Wer den Kodex nicht einhält, den bestraft der Kapitalmarkt?

Mahr, Till G.; Rott, Roland; Nowak, Eric - 2004

Seit der Einführung des Deutschen Corporate Governance Kodex (Kodex) im Jahr 2002 sind deutsche börsennotierte Unternehmen zur Abgabe der Entsprechenserklärung gemäß § 161 AktG verpflichtet (Comply-or-Explain-Prinzip). Auf der Basis dieser Information soll durch den Druck des Kapitalmarkts...

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CEO turnover, firm performance and enterprise reform in China: evidence from new micro data

Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2006

Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on CEO turnover, ownership structure and board characteristics, we estimate Logit models of CEO turnover. We find consistently for all performance measures including both stock...

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Power, rent extraction, and executive compensation

Bebchuk, Lucian; Fried, Jesse - In: CESifo Forum 03 (2002) 3, pp. 23-28

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