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We provide novel evidence that a firm's engagement in employee-related issues explains part of the value difference between its domestic and cross-border takeovers. An acquirer's investment in employee relations is positively related to the firm's performance when acquiring domestically, but...
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Using a cross-country sample of mergers and acquisitions, we examine the role of cultural, institutional, geographic and managerial factors on post-merger default risk. Our results are consistent with the asymmetric hypothesis that managers take advantage of the overvaluation and volatility of...
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We provide novel evidence that a firm's engagement in employee-related issues explains part of the value difference between its domestic and cross-border takeovers. An acquirer's investment in employee relations is positively related to the firm's performance when acquiring domestically, but...
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The purpose of our paper is to examine the profitability and social desirability of both domestic and foreign mergers in a location-quantity competition model, where we allow for the possibility of hollowing-out of the target firm. We refer to hollowing-out as the situation where the target firm...
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We examine the motives for and consequences of 5,317 failed and completed cross-border acquisitions constituting $619 billion of total activity that were led by government-controlled acquirers over the period from 1990 to 2008. We benchmark this activity at the aggregate country level and also...
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This paper provides empirical evidence on the effects of cross-border M&As on investing firms' domestic performance in the U.K. and France. We build a new firm-level dataset that combines a global M&A database with balance sheet data for the years 2000-2007. Combining matching techniques with a...
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This paper provides empirical evidence on the relationship between cross-border acquisitions and innovation activities at the firm level. In contrast to previous studies that analyze the effects on innovation in target firms, this paper investigates the effects on the investing firms. For the...
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This study focuses on ex ante performance of domestic and foreign takeover targets in Germany, one of the most … well as binary response model estimations of takeover probabilities were performed for the manufacturing and service sector … separately. The results showed a diametrically opposing impact of productivity and profitability on the takeover likelihood. This …
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We analyze the economic forces underlying cross-border Mergers and Acquistions (M&As) using a large bilateral panel data set. The frequent occurrence of zero observations provides essential information on the structure of M&A flows, which we model empirically using a two-stage procedure. At the...
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